Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will see farther.
--- Henry Drummond

Anger manages everything badly.
--- Statius

Unless a man undertakes more that he possibly can do he will never do all that he can.
--- Orison Sweet Marden

The true art of memory is the art of attention.
--- Samuel Johnson

Great talkers are little doers.
--- Benjamin Franklin

Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for.
--- Robert Quillen

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
--- J.P. Clarke

We cannot heal the wounds we do not feel.
--- S. R. Smalley

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
---French Proverb

Children have more need of models than critics.
--- Joubert

If people speak ill of you, live so that noone will believe them.
--- Plato

Those who follow the crowd are quickly lost in it.
--- Anonymous

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
--- John Ruskin

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.  Before him, I may think aloud.
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
--- Thomas a'Kempis

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
--- Johann von Schiller

Time is the most valuable coin in your life.  You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent.  Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you.
--- Carl Sandburg

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
--- Joseph F. Newton

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin.
--- Grace Hansen

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
--- Margaret Mitchell

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
--- Albert Szent Gyorgyi

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
--- Faith Baldwin

Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
--- H. L. Mencken

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
--- Helen Keller

Women's work is always toward wholeness.
--- Mary Sarton

One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.
--- Sara Jeannette Duncan

The dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
--- Anonymous

One ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, it if were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
--- Johannn Wolfgang von Goethe

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
--- George Eliot

People who know little are usually great talkers, while people who know much say little.
--- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Character is much easier kept then recovered.
--- Thomas Paine

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.
--- Teresa of Avita

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
--- Arthur Conan Doyle

down is their hearts, wise men know this truth; the only way to help yourself is to help other.
--- Elbert Hubbard

Hope it is a risk that must be run.
--- George Bernanos

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth or a wig.  How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
--- Frank Moore Colby

One may be my very good friend, and not of my opinion.
--- Margaret Cavendish

Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget that sunshine never failed us yet.
--- Celia Thaxter

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
--- Albert Einstein

What is now proved was once only imagined.
--- William Blake

If it is not enough to have a good mind.  The main thing is to use it well.
--- Rene' Descartes

We should not let grass grow on the path of friendship.
--- Marie Th'ere`se Rodet Geoffrin

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
--- Samuel Johnson

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
--- Aesop