A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours., Laurence J. Peter, US educator writer (1919 1988)
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued., Thomas H. Huxley, English biologist (1825 1895)
The reward for a thing well done is to have done it., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casketsafe, dark, motionless, airlessit will change. It will not be broken it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable., C. S. Lewis, English essayist juvenile novelist (1898 1963)
The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside., Homer, The Iliad, Greek epic poet (800 BC 700 BC)
Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes., John Stuart Mill, English economist philosopher (1806 1873)