As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.
—Jean de La Bruyere
Books and proverbs receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed.
—William Temple
For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.
—Laozi (Chinese Philosopher)
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.
—John Muir (Scottish-born American Naturalist)
If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a “wandering to find home,” why should we not look forward to the arrival?
—C. S. Lewis (Irish-born British Children’s Books Writer)
If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
—John Henry Newman (British Catholic Clergyman)
He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (German Scientist)
If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so.
—Shakti Gawain (American Author)
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English Poet)
By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
—Laozi (Chinese Philosopher)
We are always looking to the future; the present does not satisfy us.—Our ideal, whatever it may be, lies further on.
—Ezra Hall Gillett