An Ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news-writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself.

- Sir Henry Wotton

The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading.

- Bertrand Russel

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

- John Ruskin

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost. When health is lost, something is lost. When character is lost, all is lost!

- Anonymous

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

- V I Lenin

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

- Samuel Johnson