Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
—Juvenal (Roman Poet)
Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.
—W. H. Auden (British-born American Poet)
Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
—M. Scott Peck (American Psychiatrist)
Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.
—Norman Cousins (American Journalist)
Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.
—John Wesley (British Methodist Religious Leader)
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
—George Goodman (American Economist)