“The sun is pure communism everywhere except in cities, where it’s private property.” – Malcolm De Chazal, writer and painter (1902-1981)

“We should manage our fortunes as we do our health — enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.” - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.” – Patrick Henry, revolutionary (1736-1799)

“A language is never in a state of fixation, but is always changing; we are not looking at a lantern-slide but at a moving picture.” – Andrew Lloyd James, linguist

“Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.” – Johann Gottfried Seume, author (1763-1810)

“Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.” - Edward R. Murrow

“Do not think of knocking out another person’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.” – Horace Mann, educational reformer (1796-1859)

“There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.” – Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983) 

“The perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.” – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, moralist and essayist (1715-1747)

“We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.” - George Eliot