For unflagging interest and enjoyment a household of children if things go reasonably well certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Theodore RooseveltUtility is the great idol of the age to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
Friedrich SchillerThere is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Douglas MacArthurThe Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
T. S. EliotThe war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
Robert E. LeeLanguage is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Oliver Wendell HolmesThe truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Leonardo da Vinci