"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."

"Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment."

"Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye. Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues."

-- William Shakespeare

"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

“Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”

-- Nathaniel Hawthorne