"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."  Helen Keller


There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.  Edith Wharton, American novelist (1862-1937)


A man there was, tho' some did count him mad, The more he cast away, the more he had.
John Bunyan, English writer and Puritan minister (1628-1688)


Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
G.K. Chesterton, English essayist and poet (1874-1936)



We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
Abraham Lincoln, 16th American president (1809-1865)