I dote on his very absence. William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, Act 1 scene 2

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again. Pericles, from Plutarch, Lives

There is a destiny That makes us brothers None goes his way alone All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our Edwin Markham

Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship. Zeuxis

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs. Sir Francis Darwin, Eugenics Review, April 1914

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932

The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself. Terence, Adelphoe

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking. Cato the Elder, from Seneca the Elder, Controversiae

The gods help them that help themselves. Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner