"The only stable state is on in which all men equal before the law."
-Aristotle
"It is the mark of a superior man that will take no harmful ease."
-Confucius
"Life is a test and this world is a place of trial. Always the problems- or maybe the same problem- will be presented to every generation in different forms."
-Winston Churchill
"There is no royal road to learning; no shortcut to the acquirement of any valuable art."
-Anthony Trollope
"Wear your learning, like your watch in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one."
-Lord Chesterfield
"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."
-Henri Bergson
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
-William Jennings Bryan
"The final test to a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."
-Walter Lippman
"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers it shows he is a citizen of the world."
-Francis Bacon
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter; therefore, yet soft pipes, play on; not to the sensual ear, but more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone."
-John Keats