It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Sigmund Freud

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
Walt Whitman

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
Walt Whitman

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Plato

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

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Brian Tracy

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
Jonathan Swift

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
Thomas Paine

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
Thomas Paine

He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
Stephen Leacock

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
Charles de Gaulle

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
Ernest Holmes

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Langston Hughes

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo Tolstoy

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Emily Dickinson

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
Alexander the Great

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
Marcus Garvey

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Jane Austen