With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. Charles Dickens English novelist (1812 - 1870) Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done. William Shakespeare Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology. James A. Garfield US general & politician (1831 - 1881) For the sword outwears its sheath,<br> And the soul wears out the breast,<br> And the heart must pause for breath,<br> And love itself have rest. Lord Byron English poet & satirist (1788 - 1824) The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man. Lord William Beveridge English economist (1879 - 1963) No man is demolished but by himself. Richard Bently In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world. Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. Richard Baxter English author & Puritan (1615 - 1691) Hear the other side.<br> (Audi Partem Alteram) Saint Augustine Carthaginian author, saint, & church father (354 AD - 430 AD) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. George Washington First president of US (1732 - 1799) |