"Sow a thought and you reap an act;
Sow an act and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny." --Samuel Smiles

"So much is a man worth as he esteems himself." --Rabelais

"It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintain it and work it out in his life." --Epictetus

"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them." --David Hume