He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. – Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961 Category: Effort
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. – Plutarch Category: Effort
In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom. – Ezra Stiles Category: Wisdom
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect. – George Bancroft Category: respect
