Jane Austen

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
- Jane Austen

Horace

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
- Horace

Napoleon Hill

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
- Napoleon Hill

Sir Kenelm Digby

"One can have no happiness in this world or the next but by extreme and vehement love."
- Sir Kenelm Digby

Tao Te Ching

The world is formed from the void, like utensils from a block of wood. The Master knows the utensils, yet keeps to the block: thus she can use all things.
- Tao Te Ching

Confucius

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
- Confucius

Jean Cocteau

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
- Jean Cocteau

Andre Maurois

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.
- Andre Maurois

Plato

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
- Plato

C. S. Lewis

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
- C. S. Lewis

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Coincidences are spiritual puns.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Socrates

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!"
- Socrates

Edmund Burke

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- Edmund Burke

Millard Fillmore

An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.
- Millard Fillmore

Seneca

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Seneca

Henry Ford

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
- Henry Ford

Chauncey Depew

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.
- Chauncey Depew

Sinclair Lewis

“He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.”
- Sinclair Lewis

Sigmund Freud

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
- Sigmund Freud

Albert Camus

In the depths of winter, I finally learnt in me there was an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Life is the childhood of our immortality."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

George Washingon Carver

“To those who have not yet learned the secret of true happiness, begin now to study the little things in your own door yard.”
- George Washingon Carver (1864-1943)

John Kenneth Galbraith

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

Calvin Coolidge

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
- Calvin Coolidge

Karl Albrecht

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.
- Karl Albrecht

H. L. Mencken

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
- H. L. Mencken

Peter Abelard

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
- Peter Abelard

Milton Berle

"A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong."
- Milton Berle

Anonymous

He who thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.
- Anonymous

Mark Twain

Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity--these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them.
- Mark Twain