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- The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
- When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.
- Paul De Gondi
- Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
- Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)
- The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.
- Henry Brougham (1778 - 1868)
- Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
- Chinese Proverb
- Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.
- Don Wood
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