People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

Oscar Wilde

'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus

William Shakespeare

The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Even the people we most admire often feel inadequate.

Andrew Matthews

Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong, The women have leaped from their spheres,And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along,And are setting the world by the ears!

Maria Weston Chapman, The Times

Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

Baltasar Gracian

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Albrecht Durer

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

Robertson Davies

Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.

Michael Burke

So you set out to travel to Rome... and end up in Istanbul. You set off for Japan... and you end up on a train across Siberia. The journey, not the destination, becomes a source of wonder.

Loreena McKennitt

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.

Tupac Shakur