It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty; while virtue gets all the credit.
—François de la Rochefoucauld, French writer
An idea in a cage is like a silver dollar buried in the ground. Both are safe, but neither produces anything.
— Dr. Myron S. Allen
If we were all given by magic, the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
—Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician and historian
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
—Andrew Carnegie
A community is like a ship;
Everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
—Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
—H.L. Mencken, American journalist and essayist
It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.
—E. H. Harriman
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
—Arthur Christopher Benson
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him a landlord to a ghost.
—Lloyd C. Douglas
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
—George Eliot, British writer
