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- The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.
- Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536)
- War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
- Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536)
- Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
- Madam Guizot
- If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.
- William Penn (1644 - 1718)
- Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
- George Goethals (1858 - 1928)
- From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
- Lighter is the wound foreseen.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
- It is light grief that can take counsel.
- Anonymous
- It is not growing like a tree
in bulk doth make man better be;
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere,
A lily of a day
is fairer in May
Although it fall and die that night,
It was the plant of flower and light,
In small proportions we just beauties see;
And in short measures, life may perfect be. - Benjamin Johnson
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