Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. – Sidney Lanier Category: Wisdom
One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly. – Edward C. Steadman Category: Wisdom
Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious – friendship and learning. – Jane Harrison Category: Friendship
Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours. – G. K. Chesterton Category: Neighbors
Men do not have to cook their food they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts. – Edmund Leach Category: Food