The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature, be these what they may. Thomas Carlyle (1795 – 1881)
What we call conscience, is, in many instances, only a wholesome fear of the constable. Christian Nestell Bovee (1820 – 1904)
The world is his who can see through its pretension. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
Self-will is so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. Richard Cecil (1748 – 1810)
We are too fond of our own will. We want to be doing what we fancy mighty things, but the great point is to do small things, when called to do them, in a right spirit. Richard Cecil (1748 – 1810)
I am not a day of season, For thou mayst see a sunshine and a hail In me at once: but to the brightest beams Distracted clouds give way; so stand thou forth; The time is fair again. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Wherein have you played the knave with fortune, that she should scratch you, who of herself is a good lady, and would not have knaves thrive long under her? William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
It is our prerogative as spiritual beings, that we can rise above the feeling of the moment, above all that is isolated and individual. John Caird (1820 – 1898)
