To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition the end to which every enterprise and labor tends and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
Samuel JohnsonAmbition must be made to counteract ambition.
James MadisonWe must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
James MadisonThe only sense that is common in the long run is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
E. B. WhiteThe more anger towards the past you carry in your heart the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Barbara de AngelisMorality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
Samuel ButlerWorth seeing? Yes, but not worth going to see.
Samuel JohnsonI didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
Babe Ruth