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- Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
- King Charles I, of England
- Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.
- Jesse Stuart
- Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), 'Cato'
- The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
- It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Meditations'
- Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
- Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
- When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses
- My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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