William James
"What we need to discover now in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war; something heroic that will speak to man as universally as war does, and yet will be as compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved to be incompatible."
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John Ruskin
"In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes."
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Henry Ward Beecher
"Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint."
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Allan Bloom
"Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions, not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy, but forming and informing them as art."
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Robert Frost
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."
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Jewish proverb
"God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers."
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Edward R. Lyman
"Principle -- particularly moral principle -- can never be a weather vane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. "
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Chinese proverb
"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."
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Jack London
"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
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Jean De La Bruyere
"When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman."
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