No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. – Samuel Johnson
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of. – Bertolt Brecht
The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects. – Chanakya
Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. – Albert Edward Wiggam
In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority. – Liz Armbruster, on rbrault.blogspot.com