Necessity makes even the timid brave.
- Sallust
It is always one’s virtues and not one’s vices that precipitate one into disaster.
- Rebecca West
He who stops being better stops being good.
- Oliver Cromwell
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Reverence is an organic human experience that requires no supernatural explanations.
- Kendyl Gibbons
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
- Zig Ziglar
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
- Miguel de Cervantes
The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson