O that estate, degrees, and offices were not purchased by the meritof the water!

- Shakespeare -

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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

- Scorates (Quoted by Plutarch) -

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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

- R.G.Ingersoll, The Declaration of Independence -

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A man of courage is also full faith.

- Cicero -

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Life is never so short, but there is always time for courtesy .

- Emerson -

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A court is an assemblage of noble and distinguished beggars.

- Tallyrand -

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She half consents, who silently denies.

- Ovid -

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Refrain from covetousness and the estate shall prosper.

- Plato -

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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

- Shakespeare -

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Cowards die many times before their death;The valiant never tastes death but once.

- Shakespeare, Julius Caesar -

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The coward never on himself relies,But to an equal for assistance flies.

- George Grable, Tole in Verse -

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A creditor is worse than a master, for a master owns only your person, a creditor owns your dignity and can belabour that.

- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables -

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He that hath lost credit is dead to the world.

- Herbert -

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Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope.

- Samuel Johnson, Rasselas -

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Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

- William Warburton, To Lord Sandwich -

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And who are the greater criminals than those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy and use them ?

- Robert E.Sherwood, Idiot's Delight -

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

- Voltaire -

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Evil deeds are done for the mere desire of occupation.

- Ammiammus Marcellinus, Historia -

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Succcesful crimes alone are justified.

- Dryden, The Medal -

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These are the time that try man's souls.

- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis -

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