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• There is a great deal of human nature in people. -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)
• Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him GREAT.
  -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), on Thomas Grey...
• The superiority of some men is mere local. They are great because their associates are little.
  -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)...
• The true, strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat. -- Samuel Butle
• There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man.
  The true nobility is in being superior to you previous self. -- Samuel Johnso...
• Language is the dress of thought. -- Samuel Johnso
• It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions. -- Robert Bly