I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. (John Adams)
What if this weren't a hypothetical question? (Unknown)
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. (Michel de Montaigne)
Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold. (Bob Marley)
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare. (Harriet Martineau)
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
I believe our longing for an innate harmony runs deeper than our longing for righteousness. (Evelyn Rodriguez)
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute. (Cicero)
Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more. (Terry Pratchett)
I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that. (Ellen DeGeneres)