Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

Children are natural mimics: they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners. -Anonymous.

In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream.

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.

Vanity is as ill as ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Patch grief with proverbs. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

The first wan cowslip, wet With tears of the first morn.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant of others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Intel has announced its next chip: the Repentium.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.