Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths.

General Robert E. Lee, Said befo

Nice customs curtsy to great kings.

William Shakespeare

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Bruce Lee

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Arthur Helps

In the fields and woods more than anything else all things come to those who wait, because all things are on the move, and are sure sooner or later to come your way. To absorb a thing is better than to learn it, and we absorb what we enjoy. We learn things at school; we absorb them in the fields and woods. When we look upon Nature with fondness and appreciation, she meets us halfway and takes a deeper hold on us than when studiously conned. Hence I say the way of knowledge of Nature is the way of love and enjoyment, and is more surely found in the open air than in the school room or the laboratory.

John Burroughs, Time and Change

My life was changed in one breath from God.

Donna Summer

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.

W. Somerset Maugham

The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.

John Zorn

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue

Mark Twain

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

Matthew Prior

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.

Friedrich Hayek