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- When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Self-Reliance
- In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
- Krishnamarti
- Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, than you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- To regret deeply is to live afresh.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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