Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. – Ellen Key
I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Not for nothing is their motto TGIF – Thank God Its Friday. They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do. – Richard Nelson Bolles
He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin