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- Evil to him who evil thinks.
(Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense) - King Edward the Third (1312 - 1377), Motto of the order of the Garter
- The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
- Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC)
- The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.
- Phaedrus (15 BC - 50 AD)
- He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)
- It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.
- Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
- Why dost thou gaze upon the sky?
O that I were yon spangled sphere!
Then every star should be an eye,
To wander o'er thy beauties here. - Sir Thomas More (1478 - 1535)
- Comments are free but facts are sacred.
- Charles Prestwich Scott
- Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.
- John Keats (1795 - 1821)
- If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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