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• Man is his own star; and that soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man.
  -- John Fletcher (1576-1625) -- Upon an "Honest Man's Fortune...
• All things that are Made for our general uses are at war,-- Even we among ourselves.
  -- John Fletcher (1576-1625) -- Upon an "Honest Man's Fortune...
• Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery
  do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant?...
• Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery
  do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant?...
• If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxv...
• And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.
  -- Henry Vaughan (1621-1695) -- They are all gone...
• In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.
  Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes: Men would be angels, angels would be gods....
• We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
  Robert Louis Stevenso...
• We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.
  Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually....