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• There is hardly a thing in the world that some man can not make a little worse and sell a little cheaper.
• He who considers too much will perform little. SCHILLER
• The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes of it.
  -- John Ruski...
• There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.
  They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave....
• A man may well bring a horse to the water, but he cannot make him drink with he will.
  -- John Heywood...
• When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Merchant of Venice -- Act i, Sc. 2...
• A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. -- Oscar Wilde
• WILDE's definition of a cynic. A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
• Nobody makes a greater mistake then he who does nothing because he could only do a little.
  -- Edmund Burke...