Humor - It's essence is love; it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Carlyle (1795-1881)

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

To strive with an equal is dangerous;
with a superior, mad;
with an inferior, degrading.

Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Disraeli (1804-1881)

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

Goethe (1749-1832)

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.)

Self-truth is the essence of heroism.

Emerson (1803-1882)

Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others - this is my criterion of goodness.
And whatever injures society at large, or any individual, in it - this is my measure of iniquity.

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

As the branches of a tree return their sap to the root, from whence it arose; as a river poureth its streams to the sea, whence its spring was supplied; so the heart of a grateful man delighteth in returning a benefit received.

Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it principally on one spot.

Josh Billings (1815-1885)

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