Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Oliver Goldsmith

When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?

Muriel Barbery

First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first one is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.

Bertrand Russell

Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

Gary Gygax

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Plato

From labor health, from health contentment springs.

Melody Beattie

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

Carol Ann Duffy

Those who do not think bout the future cannot have one.

Michael J. Kami

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

George Orwell

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.

Paul Klee

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Ambrose Bierce

If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time.

Mark Hanna