“It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

“He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.” — Cicero

“To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.” — Talleyrand

“Perfection is finally attained, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.” — Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“The work will teach you how to do it.” — Estonian proverb

“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.” — Emerson

Asked what condition of man most deserves pity, Ben Franklin answered, “A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.”

“We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“He who moves not forward, goes backward.” — Goethe

“Wit is educated insolence.” — Aristotle