A man's reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is.

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

Jane Addams

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Benjamin Disraeli

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.

Edmund Burke

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Miguel de Unamuno

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

B. B. King

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

Greta Garbo

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Florence Scovel Shinn

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

Victor Hugo

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.

Remy de Gourmont

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!

Marcus Garvey

I suppose the love of life which periodically deserts most men was returning: like sexual desire, it moves in cycles.

Graham Greene

All art is but imitation of nature.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca th