The Thought That Counts

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

         George Orwell

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.          

         Thomas Hobbes-Leviathan

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.    

            Thoreau-Solitude

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.    Shakespeare-As You Like It, Act V. Sc.1

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.               

                    Kossuth

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.  George Washington

One, on God’s side, is a majority.    

           Wendell Phillips

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.   

           Disraeli

Science is nothing but perception.        

            Plato

“Will you walk into my parlour?”

Said a spider to a fly:

“Tis the prettiest little parlour

That you ever did spy.”

             Mary Howitt-The Spider and the Fly

Trust in God, and keep your powder dry.

                 Cromwell

Call no man happy till he is dead.

             Aeschylus-Agamemnon

If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it?

             Ben Franklin

Peace won by compromise is usually a short-lived achievement.

                 Winfield Scott

In solitude, when we are least alone.

             Byron-Childe Harold

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

              Bierce-The Devil’s Dictionary

It is not alone what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

              Molie’re

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

                Henry Ward Beecher