We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us. – Orison Swett Marden

Time and space – time to be alone, space to move about – these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow. – Edwin Way Teale, Autumn Across America, 1956

The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children. – Paul R. Ehrlich