It is easier to be a "humanitarian" than to render your own country its proper due; it is easier to be a "patriot" than to make your community a better place to live in; it is easier to be a "civic leader" than to treat your own family with loving understanding; for the smaller the focus of attention, the harder the task. Sydney J. Harris on identity
The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. Marcus Aurelius on nature
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. Marcus Aurelius on observation
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. Marcus Aurelius on soul
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. Marcus Aurelius on strength
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it can never forgive the preaching of a new gosp Frederic Harrison on change
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it can never forgive the preaching of a new gospel. Frederic Harrison on forgiveness
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. Frederic Harrison on religion
I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was. Rex Harrison on age
Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other. Oliver J. Hart on courage
And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay The song of the sailors in glee: So I think of the luminous footprints that bore The comfort o'er dark Galilee, And wait for the signal to go to the shore, To the ship that is waiting for me. Bret Harte on death
O cursed ambition, thou devouring bird, how dost thou from the field of honesty pick every grain of profit or delight, and mock the reaper's toil! Harvard on ambition
Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not. Václav Havel on risk
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roo Nathaniel Hawthorne on affection
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. Nathaniel Hawthorne on progress
So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit. Nathaniel Hawthorne on voice
You can’t talk about a kind of democracy unless those who are affected by decisions make those decisions whether the institutions in question be the welfare department, the university, the factory, the farm, the neighborhood, the country. Casey Hayden on decision
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. William Hazlitt on adversity
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us. William Hazlitt on age
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. William Hazlitt on cunning