It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

- John Steinbeck

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

- David Hume (1711-1776), Scottish philosopher

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know.

- Charles Kingsley

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.


- Elizabeth Bibesco

Take full account of what excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.- Marcus Aurelius

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.- St. Thomas Aquinas