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- Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. - John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
- In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
- Lydia Sigourney
- The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
- We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)
- I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
- Oliver Cromwell (1599 - 1658)
- All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
- William Congreve (1670 - 1729)
- What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
(Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex) - Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.
- Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667)
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