Mark Twain

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
- Mark Twain

Lewis Carroll

Speak roughly to your little boy, and beat him when he sneezes: he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases.
- Lewis Carroll

Napoleon

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
- Napoleon

Samuel Johnson

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
- Samuel Johnson

Eleanor Roosevelt

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes ... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt