Alphabetical Index of Authors

1. When you're finished changing, you're finished.
2. We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
3. To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
4. The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
5. The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
6. Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
7. No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.
8. Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.
9. Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
10. Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
11. Ignorance never settles a question.
12. Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
13. Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
14. A precedent embalms a principle.
15. Everything comes if man only waits.