Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

To him, man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

Oscar Wilde

Man, proud man, dressed in a little brief authority, like an angry ape, play such fantastic tricks before high heaven as make the angels weep

William Shakespeare

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

Mark Twain

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation

Samuel Johnson

Experimenting with drugs is like target practice where your head is the bull

Michael Josephson

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

Charles Horton Cooley

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

Alfred A. Montapert

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

Benjamin Franklin

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

John Milton

Failing to make it to the list of the best 5 students in class or not being named the team captain should not make anyone feel like they have failed.

Stephen Richards

The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.

Richard Cecil