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- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
- Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
- The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
- Bernard Baruch
- No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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