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A man always have two reasons for doing anything; a good reason and the real reason.
-- John Pierpont Morgan

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
-- Joseph Roux

We see things not as they are, but as we are.
-- H. M. Tomlinson

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
-- Hugh Walpole

The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should not want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Income these days is something you cannot live without or within.
-- Anonymous

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
-- E. M. Forster

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
-- Don Herold

Don't dwell on reality; it will only keep you from greatness.
-- Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
-- George Eliot

In matter of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
-- Thomas Jefferson

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being at ill ease with yourself.
-- Balzac

Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them.
-- William Howard Taft

You can only live once, but if you live right, once is enough.
-- Joe E. Lewis

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
-- John Lubbock

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.
-- Peter McWilliams

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
-- Maria Edgeworth

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
-- W. N. Taylor

I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
-- Euripides