I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton (1642–1727), spoken the evening before his death

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it. РFran̤ois VI de la Rochefoucault

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. – Charles Caleb Colton