The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do., Erich Gutkind,
Anger without power is folly., German Proverb,
Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty., Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, English author, critic, lexicographer (1709 1784)
Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous., Confucius, The Confucian Analects, Chinese philosopher reformer (551 BC 479 BC)
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous., Thornton Wilder, US dramatist novelist (1897 1975)
It is never too late to be what you might have been., George Eliot, English novelist (1819 1880)