The love of well-being has now become the predominant taste of the nation; the great current of human passions runs in that channel and sweeps everything along in its course.
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)

Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.
Augustine (A.D. 354-430)

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
Louis Agassiz (1807-1873)

Eat to live, and not live to eat.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, like a lizard, smooth, slippery, faithless, a pixy wife. Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)

Most men forget God all day and ask Him to remember them at night.
Anonymous

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Jesus Christ is the center of all, and the goal to which all tends.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, you can never have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)