“The individual is always mistaken.” – Emerson

“Each man ….  is justified in his individuality, as his nature is found to be immense.” – Emerson

“The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.” – Emerson

“The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life He first individualizes.” – Henrik Ibsen

“Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.” – John Stuart Mill

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

And what I assume you shall assume.

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” – Walt Whitman

But tardy justice wills overtake the crime.” – Dryden

“Justice, though moving slowly, seldom fails to overtake the wicked.” (Raro antecedentem scelestum Deceruit pede peona claudo.) – Horace

“All actual heroes are essential men,

And all men possible heroes.” – E.B. Browning

“The Hero is he who lives in the inward sphere of things, in the True, Divine and eternal, which exists always unseen to most, under the Temporary, Trivial; his being is in that.” – Carlyle

“To believe in the heroic makes heroes.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“Heroism is the seld-devotion of genius manifesting itself in action.” – J.C. and A.W. Hare

“Whoe’er excels in what we prize,

Appears a hero in our eyes.” – Swift

“Every hero becomes a bore at last.” Emerson

“The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.” – Washington Irving

“Nothing is more depressing than the conviction that one is not a hero.” – George Moore

“You cannot be a hero without being a coward.” -  Bernard Shaw

“Help refused is hindrance sought and found.” – Robert Browning

“Help thyself and God will help thee.” – Herbert.

“God helps them that help themselves.” – Algernon Sidney

 “Hell and heaven are near man, yea, in him; and every man after death goes to that hell or that heaven in which he was, as to his spirit during his abode in the world.” – Swedenborg

“Hell is no other but a soundless pit,

Where no one beam of comfort peeps in it.”- Robert Herrick

“The road to Hell is easy to travel.” – Biron

“The descent to hell is easy; the gates stand open night and day; but to re climb the slope, and escape to the outer air, this indeed is a task.” – Vergil

“The heart of man is the place the devils dwell in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.” – Sir Thomas Browne

“Heaven but the Vision of fulfill’d desire,

And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire.” – Omar Khayyam

“I never spoke with God.

Nor visited in heaven.

Yet certain am I of the spot.

As if the charts were given.” – Emily Dickinson

“The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.” – Longfellow

“Heaven lies about us in our infancy.” – Wordsworth

“Heaven is doing good from good-will; hell is doing evil from ill-will.” – Swedenborg

“Heaven is the treasury of everlasting joy.” – Shakespeare

“The love of heaven makes one heavenly.” – Shakespeare

“In my father’s house are many mansions.” – New Testament – John XIV

“Heaven means to be one with God.” – Confucius

 “Gold is pale because it has so many thieves plotting against it.” – Diogenes

“Gold is tried with the touchstone, and men with gold.” – Chilo

“Men have a touchstone whereby to try gold; but gold is the touchstone whereby to try men.” – Fuller

“For gold in physic is a cordial;

Therefore he loved gold in special.” – Chaucer

“The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless!

The last corruption of degenerate man. – Samuel Johnson

“Gold begets in brethren hate;

Gold in families’ debate;

Gold does friendship separate;

Gold does civil war create.” – Abraham Cowley

“Chains of gold are stronger than chains of iron.” – Thomas Fuller

“The strongest castle, tower, and town,

The golden bullet beats it down.” – Shakespeare

“Gold was as good as twenty orators.” – Shakespeare

“Our idea of God implies necessary and eternal existence; the manifest conclusion is that God does exist.” – Descartes

“God is proved not only by the zeal of those who seed Him, but by the blindess of those who seek Him not.” – Pascal

“God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, and infinite

Mind, Sprit, Soul Principal, Life, Truth, Love. – Mary Baker Eddy

“Brahman is Truth, Knowledge, Infinity. – Tattiriyopanishad

“The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men.” – Bacon

“He that has his father for judge goes safe to the trial.” – Cervantes

“One father is more than hundred school masters.” – George Herbert

“Like father, like son: every good tree makes the good fruits.” – William Langland

“It behooves a father to be blameless, if he expects his son to be more blameless than he was himself.” (probum  patrem esse oportet qui gnatum suom Esse peobiorem quam ipsus fuerit postulet.) – Plautus

“It is a wise father that known his own child.” – Shakespeare

“A wise son makes a glad father.” – John Ray

“The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.” – Bertrand Russell

“The family may be regarded as the cradle of civil society, and it is in great measure the circle of family lift that the destiny of states is fostered. – Pope Leo XIII

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” – Bowring

“All happy families resemble one another: every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Tolstoy

“All fame is dangerous; good bring envy, bad shame.” – Thomas Fuller

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. – Lou Holtz

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat. – Sam Snead

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. – Josephus Daniels

Making comebacks is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity. – Greg Lake