The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books. Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912)
English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 - 1902) But I’m not so think as you drunk I am. Sir J.C. Squire, Ballade of Soporific Absorption Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. George Eliot, Silas Marner (1861)
English novelist (1819 - 1880) The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. Socrates
Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC - 399 BC) It is not enough to be good if you have the ability to be better. Alberta Lee Cox We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. Albert Einstein
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) A promise made is a debt unpaid. Robert W. Service Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be. Clementine Paddleford | 
