Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery, if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just Tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Jackie Chan

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Helen Keller

He who clings to life shall lose it -- but losing it in a right cause will gain it.

Source Unknown

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

Dorothea Brande

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.

Oscar Wilde

Those who do not think independently are under the influence of somebody else who thinks for them. If you give your thoughts to somebody else, it is a more shameful slavery than if you give you body to someone to possess.

Leo Tolstoy

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

Alice Walker

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Billy Graham

Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Then all at once our personal and political quarrels were made very abruptly to converge. In the special edition of the published to mark the events of September 11, 2001, Edward painted a picture of an almost fascist America where Arab and Muslim citizens were being daily terrorized by pogroms, these being instigated by men like Paul Wolfowitz who had talked of 'ending' the regimes that sheltered Al Quaeda. Again, I could hardly credit that these sentences were being produced by a cultured person, let alone printed by a civilized publication.

Christopher Hitchens

Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after life, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; and that waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning.

William Ewart Gladstone, The Lif