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- Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)
- A large part of virtue consists in good habits.
- William Paley
- It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.
- George Gissing (1857 - 1903)
- All art is an imitation of nature.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.
- Ernest Dimnet
- It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
- Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.
- Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974)
- Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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