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A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
- quote by Martial
A good man is the best friend, and therefore soonest to be chosen, longer to be retained; and indeed, never to be parted with, unless he cease to be that for which he was chosen.
- quote by Jeremy Taylor
A good man is the best friend, and therefore soonest to be chosen, longest to be retained, and indeed never to be parted with, unless he cease to be that for which he was chosen.
- quote by Jeremy Taylor
A great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.
- quote by Bernard Shaw
A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man".
- quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt
A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man".
- quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
- quote by Helen Keller
A heaven of charms divine Nausicaa lay.
- quote by Homer
- quote by Albert Einstein
A hundred wise men have said in various ways that love transcends the power of death, and millions of fools have supposed that they meant nothing by it. At this late hour in my life I have learned what they meant. They meant that love transcends death. They are correct.
- quote by Gene Wolfe