The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
Washington Irving
In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
Robert Hall
Take the attitude of a student never be too big to ask questions never know too much to learn something new.
Og Mandino
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions, reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Simone Weil
I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes -- and as cold as Charity Chastity or any other Virtue.
Lord Byron
It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Popular opinions on subjects not palpable to sense are often true but seldom or never the whole truth.
John Stuart Mill
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre
