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- Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.
- Jean Baptiste Montegut
- The character of a man is known from his conversations.
- Menander (342 BC - 292 BC)
- Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
- Jean Baptiste Rousseau
- Comments are free but facts are sacred.
- Charles Prestwich Scott
- Taxation without representation is tyranny.
- James Otis (1725 - 1783)
- History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
- James A. Forude
- 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)
- Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ill a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade:
A breath can make them, as a breath has made;
but a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed can never be supplied. - Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774)
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