Candour : |
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. |
- Willam Blake |
Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid. |
- Oscar wilde |
Caution : |
What ever man for Loyalty pretend, 'Tis Wisdom's part to doubt a faithful friend. |
- Robert Herrick |
The scars of others should teach us caution. Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. |
- Alexander Pope |
Chance : |
A throw of the dice will never abolish chance. |
-Stephane Mallarme |
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. |
- Voltaire |
Change : |
There is nothing permanent except change. |
- Heraclitus |
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. |
- Charles kettering |
Childhood: |
He who shall teach a child to doubt; A rotting grave shall ne'er get out. |
- William Blake |
The childhood shows the man; As morning shows the day. |
- John Milton |
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they |
- forgive them. |
Choice: |
The strongest principle of growth line in human choice. |
- George Eliot |
Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty. |
- George MacDonald |
Sometimes it is a good choice not choose at all. |
- Montaigne |
Civilization: |
Civilization does not lie in a greater or lesser degree of refinement, but in an awareness shared by a whole people. |
- Albert Hubbard |
Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool. |
- Albert Hubbard |
Civilization is a moment and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour. |
- Arnold Toynbee |
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the lifeblood of real civilization. |
- G. M. Trevelyan |
Confession: |
A man should never be ashamed to own he had been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that hw is wiser today than he was yesterday. |
- Jonathan Swift |
Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence. |
-- Publilius Syrus |