The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower (American Head of State)
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
—Cesare Pavese
‘Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
—Eric Hoffer (American Philosopher)
Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.
—Gelett Burgess
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
—Eleanor Roosevelt (American First Lady)
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)
Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.
—Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)
Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.
—Publilius Syrus (Syrian-born Latin Writer)
It is easy to be brave when far away from danger.
—Aesop (Greek Fabulist)
In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.
—Robert G. Ingersoll (American Atheist Politician)
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Swiss Philosopher)