All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Plato

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
Plato

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
Plato

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt Whitman

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
Leonardo da Vinci

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
Carl Sagan

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
Alexander the Great

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Voltaire

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
Voltaire

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Saint Augustine

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Langston Hughes

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
Thomas Merton

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
George Orwell

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
Marcus Aurelius

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
Douglas MacArthur

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
Lord Byron

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
Lord Byron

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
Lord Byron

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
Lord Byron