For, stripped of the temporary associations which gave rise to it, it is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.

Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.

Robert Martin

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

C.S. Lewis

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Benjamin Franklin

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

James Truslow Adams

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Don Marquis

Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression changes -- we see something abstract, the crowd, and we become different. But in the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd, He only sees each individual.

Soren Kierkegaard

The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.

Dennis Prager

We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

Lionel Trilling

For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.

David Rittenhouse

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

Oscar Wilde

I knew a girl that was so ugly that... She uses a septic tank for a toilet.

Rodney Dangerfield

To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Blaise Pascal