Light-hearted verses

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.       

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself, you should say: " He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many faults he could have mentioned."

- Epictetus

 They are able because they think they are able.

- Virgil

 If you look into your own, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about?  What is there to fear?

- Confucius

 If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

- Senator George Aiken

 Judge a tree from its fruit, not from the leaves.

- Euripides