G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.

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Mandell Creighton

No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.

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Laertius Diogenes

Blushing is the color of virtue.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

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Miguel de Cervantes

The pot calls the kettle black.

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Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu

It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

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Kahlil Gibran

When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.

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Richard Bach

The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

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Orison Swett Marden

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

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Galileo Galilei

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.

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Aldous Huxley

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

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