Robert Lynd

"Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with."

Nicolas de Chamfort

"Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth."

Robert Kennedy

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

Robert Lynd

"One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge."

Napoleon Bonaparte

"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."

Robert Browning

"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."

Marianne Moore

"If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist."

Lillian Hellman

"Things start out as hopes and end up as habits."