"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt creep in; but get rid of them and forget about them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, and you should never encumber its potentialities and invitations with
the dread of the past. You should not waste a moment of today on the rottenness of yesterday!"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy."
- Robert A. Heinlein
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" It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."
- Robert G. Ingersoll
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"The optimist says we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell
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"You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you."
- Ruth Smeltzer
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"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
- James Baldwin
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"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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"The virtue of man ought to be measured, not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his everyday conduct."
- Blaise Pascal
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