Francis Bacon
"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

Lewis Carroll:
"Would You tell me, please which way I ought to go from here?"  "That
depends a good deal on where you want to get to  . . ."  Alice in
Wonderland

"How can you go talking so quietly, head downwards? . . ."  "What does
it matter where my body happens to be?" He said,  "My mind goes on
working all the same."  Through the Looking Glass 

"Contrariwise", continued Tweedledee, "If it was so, it might be; and if
it were so, it would be; but as it isnt, it aint. Thats logic."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:
"No data yet," he answered. "It is a capital mistake to theorize before
you have all the evidence.  It biases the judgement." Sherlock Holmes to
Watson.  A Study in Scarlet

Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can
inspire."

Epictetus
"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as
we speak."

Goeth
"It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have
to do, that makes life blessed."

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply.  Willing is not enough; we must do."

William James
"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it"

Thomas Jefferson
"I am a great believer in luck.  The harder I work, the more I have of it."

"It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation,
which gives happiness."

Samuel Johnson
"Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance."

"The future is purchased by the present."

Hegel
"Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object."

Victor Hugo
"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."

John Stuart Mills
"A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded which he cannot do, never
does all he can."

Thomas Paine
"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from
distress, and grow brave by reflection."

George S. Patton
"Never tell people how to do things.  Tell them what to do, and they
will surprise you with their ingenuity."

Louis Pasteur:
"Chance favors the prepared mind".

Philo
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

William Shakespeare
"The earth has music for those who listen."

"Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better."

St. Augustine
"Insomuch as love grows in you, so in you beauty grows."

Robert Louis Stevenson
"Youth is wholly experimental."

Socrates
"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire
to happen."

Mark Twain:
"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as much as you please."

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly.  I said I don't know."

"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened
or not."

"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."

"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."


Henry David Thoreau
"I have three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship,
three for society."

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."

Thoreau's Law:  If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent
of doing you good, you should run for your life.

Voltaire
"By appreciation, we make excellence in others our property."

Alfred North Whitehead
"Problems are only opportunities in disquise."