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- I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.
- Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767 - 1835)
- Lady you bereft me of all words,
Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,
And there is such confusion in my powers. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- I wish you well and so I take my leave,
I Pray you know me when we meet again. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. - John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
- The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
- We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)
- How use doth breed a habit in a man.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
- The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
- A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
- Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC)
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