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- Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773), letter to his godson, December 18, 1765
- Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, Conclusion, 1854
- Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Candide, 1759
- Death comes to all
But great achievements raise a monument
Which shall endure until the sun grows old. - George Fabricius, 'In Praise of Georgius Agricola'
- My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...
- W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911), The Mikado, 1885
- Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.
- Unknown
- You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
- Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.
- Unknown
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