That only which we have within, can we see without. If we meet no Gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is a grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.
- -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowing sorrow well, I learn to succor the distressed.
- -- Virgil

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
- -- Michel de Montaigne

Genius is eternal patience.
- -- Michelangelo

Attitude determines altitude.
- -- Unknown

Men can be stimulated to show off their good qualities to the leader who seems to think they have good qualities.
- John Richelsen

Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.
- Stewart L. Udall

Patience is passion tamed.
- Lyman Abbott

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
- - George Bernard Shaw

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
- George Santayana, "The Life of Reason: Reason in Society", 1906

A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live.
- - Unknown