"Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph."

“Love, like virtue, is its own reward.”

Source : Sir John Vanbrugh (1759). “The life of Sir J. Vanbrugh The relapse; or, Virtue in danger. The provok'd wife, with a new scene. Æsop, in two parts. The false friend”, p.137

“I know I've got a lock on the Dutch Hall of Fame.”

“Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.”

“Although physicians, as part of their training, are taught that the dosage of a drug that is prescribed for the patient must be very carefully determined and controlled, they seem to have difficulty in remembering that the same principle applies to the vitamins.”

Source : Linus Pauling (1987). “How to Live Longer and Feel Better”

“An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.”

“Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.”

“Now is the hour we should humbly prostrate ourselves before God, willing to be convicted afresh of our sins by the Holy Spirit.”

“A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.”

Source : Charles Dudley Warner (2012). “Washington Irving”, p.90, tredition