"Little minds are interested in the extraordinary;..." - Quote by Elbert Hubbard

“An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.”

“Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.”

“How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.”

“Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity”

“Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.”

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”

“Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believesin its inconceivable purity.”

“Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.”

“A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere.”