No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Independence
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods. – Demosthenes Category: Independence
There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon ones self. – John Gay Category: Independence
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence. – John Dryden Category: Fortune
They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat. – Charles Dickens Category: News
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau Category: Education