He surely is most in need of another’s patience, who has none of his own.
—Johann Kaspar Lavater (Swiss Christian Poet)
It is a good thing to laugh, at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. Beasts can weep when they suffer, but they cannot laugh.
—John Dryden (English Poet)
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
—Eric Hoffer (American Philosopher)
We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)
We cannot overstate our debt to the past, but the moment has the supreme claim.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
—Laozi (Chinese Philosopher)
The essence of justice is mercy.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin (American Universalist Preacher)
A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
—Minna Antrim
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
—Walter Lippmann (American Journalist)
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
—Alvin Toffler
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)
Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.
—Edmund Burke (Irish Political leader)
Necessity does everything well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)