Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour. ♥ 1 Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start. ♥ 2 It is not length of life, but depth of life. Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. Benjamin Franklin When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. Voltaire Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein