Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
Isaac D'IsraeliIt is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Isaac D'IsraeliHow these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.
John AubreyIt is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
James BoswellThere is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
John BurroughsYou can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else.
John BurroughsWhen you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.
Dave Pelzer