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• Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth. -- William Ellery Channing
• It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest.
  We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages....
• Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover there is no God.
  -- Logan Pearsall Smith...
• We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, - from Hermann und Dorothea...
• We may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her cost and finery upon this small speck of Dirt.
  So, like Travelers into other distant countries, we shall be better able to judge of what's done at home, know how to make a true estimate of, and set its own value upon every thing....
• What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
  -- Jack Gladney, from White Noise...
• We are those who do not disconnect the values of our minds from the actions of our bodie
  hose who do not leave their values to empty dreams, but bring them into existence, those who give material form to thoughts, and reality to values -- those who make steel, railroads, and happiness....
• Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are enabled to inspire.
  -- Duchesse de Prasli...
• If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth. -- Logan Pearsall Smith