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• Of all the forms of injustice, that is the most egregious which makes the circumstances of sex a reason for excluding one half of mankind from all those paths which lead to usefulness and honor.
  -- Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)...
• For a long time then, I reflected on this confusion in the astronomical traditions concerning the derivation of the motions of the universe's spheres.
  I began to be annoyed that the movements of the world machine, created for our sake by the best and most systematic Artisan of all, were not understood with greater certainty by the philosophers, who otherwise examined so precisely the most insignificant trifles of this world....
• Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. -- Cicero
• The only measure of a man's usefulness is the extent to which he exercises his talent, according to the laws of his own growth, for the common good.
  -- Stanley Kunitz...
• Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.
  -- Pliny the Younger (61-105 AD) -- Letters, Book i, Letter xviii, 5...
• To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).
  -- Albert Camus (1913-1960) -- The Myth of Sisyphus (1955)...
• The majority of us are for free speech only when it deals with those subjects concerning which we have no intense convictions.
  -- Edmund B. Chafee...
• Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
  -- Eleanor Roosevel...
• Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
  Epicuru...