“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” — Ray Bradbury

"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."

The Far Side Gary Larson 08.04.89

Peanuts Charles Schulz 08-06-60

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller August 6,1945

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller

We must hazard something in what we think the cause of truth: and if we propose our objections modestly, we shall, though mistaken, deserve a censure less severe, than when we are both mistaken and insolent. - Benjamin Franklin

The good man is neither uplifted with the good things of time, nor broken by its ills; but the wicked man, because he is corrupted by this world's happiness, feels himself punished by its unhappiness. -St. Augustine

Antonio Joli

Thomas à Kempis:

“Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.” — Margaret Thatcher

Thine be the day with worthy labor filled, Strong would I stand to do the duty willed; Nor swayed by restless passion let me be, That I may give the offering pure to Thee - St. Gregory of Nazianzus

Illicit relations are not subject to statistics. - Elsie Parsons

Life is really creation. It is not a fabrication determined by the idea of an end to be realized; it is an impetus, an initiative, an effort to make matter produce something which it would not produce of itself. - Henri Bergson