Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves.

Albert Goldman

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.

Victor Hugo

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

Washington Irving

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.

Peter McWilliams

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Jim Rohn

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

Hernando Cortez

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor is it given to us in this life to know whether yours or mine, our friend's or our foe's, are exactly the right.

Thomas Jefferson

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense

Samuel Johnson

People who love themselves come across as very loving, generous and kind; they express their self-confidence through humility, forgiveness and inclusiveness.

Sanaya Roman

My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought -- with these I deal.

Henry David Thoreau