A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance, but finding that they will read he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
Andrew Jackson
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits, it thereby justifies in a way all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
Leo Tolstoy
In liberal logic if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.
Thomas Sowell
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
And the gates of this Chapel were shut / And `Thou shalt not' writ over the door.
William Blake
Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?
Desiderius Erasmus
