I knew a very wise man of Sir Christopher Musgrave

Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed?See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.

Kahlil Gibran

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Alexis de Tocqueville

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

Victor Hugo

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

Sparky Anderson

If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.

Mencius

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Johann von Goethe

Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success.

Terry Pratchett

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Harrison Salisbury

The suffering of either sex -- of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong initiating or patriarchal role that is still demanded of him, or of the female who has been given too much freedom of movement as a child to stay placidly within the house as an adult -- this suffering, this discrepancy, this sense of failure in an enjoined role, is the point of leverage for social change.

Margaret Mead

A sin confessed is half forgiven.

Proverb

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Ralph J. Cudworth