A classic is something that everybody wants to have read but nobody wants to read. Mark Twain, an American author....
I recommend you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. Philip Stanhope, the 4th Earl of Chesterfield, a British statesman and man-of-letters....
The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page. St Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus), a philosopher and theologian...
Many a man falls as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good. Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher....
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at. Jonathan Swift, an English satyrist...
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. H. L. Mencken, an American writer...
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. Henry Louis Mencken, an American writer and prose stylist, the “Sage of Baltimore”....
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. Edward John Phelps, an American lawyer and diplomat...
A man should be upright not to be kept upright. Marcus Aurelius, a Roman Emperor and philosopher....
Credit: RLS website You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it or perish; and if it be so, why not now, and where you stand. Robert Louis Stevenson, a British (Scottish) author....