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• Our deeds determine us,as much as we determine our deeds. -- George Elio
• It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures.
  We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves....
• Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xi...
• There are many of us in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us.
  I have observed, for example, that we all get about the same amount of ice....
• Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
  -- George Elio...
• 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....