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- What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.
- J. B. S. Haldane (1892 - 1964)
- To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one.
- Selwyn Champion
- Compassion is the basis of all morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- The reason of a resolution is more to be considered than the resolution itself.
- Sir John Holt
- Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.
- Archbishop Ireland
- The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but".
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.
- Thales (635 BC - 543 BC)
- Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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