Youth, large, lusty, loving- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination
Mark Twain
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
Herodotus
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Confucius
Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Johann von Goethe
After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
Mark Twain
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
Mark Twain
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Kierkegaard
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.
Mark Twain