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• We make our own fortunes and call them our fate.
• We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.
  --Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet), Liberty of the Press in Philosophical Dictionary (1764)...
• What we send into the lives of others usually manages to find its way into our own.
• When we call others dogmatic, what we really object to is their holding dogmas that are different from our own.
  -- Professor Charles P. Issawi...
• PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.
  "There is no art," says Shakespeare, foolish man, "To read the mind's construction in the face....
• The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows up to othe
  but hides us from ourselves, and we injure our own cause, in the opinion of the world, when we too passionately and eagerly defend it....
• If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated. -- Voltaire
• The following appeared in a letter sent by a committee of homeowners from the Deerhaven Acres to all homeowners in Deerhaven Acres.
  "Seven years ago, homeowners in nearby Brookville community adopted a set of restrictions on how the community's yards should be landscaped and what colors the exteriors of homes should be painted....
• Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much.
  For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build up their philosophy of life....