There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?

A city which belongs to just one man is no true city

But if I am young, thou shouldest look to my merits, not to my years.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Money! Money's the curse of man, none greater.That's what wrecks cities, banishes men from homes, Tempts and deludes the most well-meaning soul, Pointing out the way to infamy and shame." - Creon

I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life

the government tends to act like a corporation treating the public as its consumers rather than its citizens

Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle.

I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I'm already thinking glamour.

People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.

Never complain about what you permit.

Happy is the man who loves the woods and waters, Brother to the grass and well beloved of Pan; The earth shall be his, and all her laughing daughters. Happy the man.

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them?