To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. – Plato
God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas A. Edison, American inventor
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. – William Shakespeare
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet
The thoughtful soul to solitude retires. – Omar Khayyam, Persian philosopher-poet
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. – Plato
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. – John Donne
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination. – John Keats, English poet
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. – John Dryden
A thought often makes us hotter than a fire. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I count life just a stuff to try the soul’s strength on. – Robert Browning, English poet
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind. – Francis de la Rochefoucauld
A heart in love with beauty never grows old. – Turkish proverb
Thoughts on the Edge of Forever 