The remedy is worse than the disease.

Here's to the town of New Haven, The home of the truth and the light, Where God speaks to Jones, In the very same tones, That he uses with Hadley and Dwight.

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Gilbert West and his friend, Lord Lyttleton, both men of acknowledged talents, had imbibed the principles of infidelity from a superficial view of the Scriptures. Fully persuaded that the Bible was an imposture, they were determined to expose [it]. Mr. West chose the Resurrection of Christ, and Lord Lyttleton the conversion of St Paul, for the subject of hostile criticism. Both sat down to their respective tasks full of prejudice and a contempt for Christianity. The results of their separate endeavours was that they were both converted by their attempts to overthrow the truth of Christianity! They came together, not as they had expected, to exult over an imposture exposed to ridicule, but to lament their folly and congratulate each other on their joint conviction, that the Bible was the word of God. Their able enquiries have furnished two most valuable treatises in favour of revelation -- one, entitled "Observations on the Conversion of St Paul", and the other, "Observations on the Resurrection of Christ.".

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

No great genius is without an admixture of madness.

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.

Make your life a mission-not an intermission.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point.

The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. -Helena Petrova Blavatsky.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

We who lived in the concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: The last of the human freedoms-to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Courage is not the absence of fear.Courage is the precence of fear with the capacity to manage and overcome it.

The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.