“Progress mainly depends on the extent to which the strongest and not merely the highest forces of human nature can be utilised for the increase of social good.”

Alfred Marshall

“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”

Baltasar Gracian

“He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.” Chinese Proverb

“When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.” Edgar Watson Howe

“I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.”

Lord Nelson

“A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.”

Stephen Jay Gould.

"All history is contemporary history."

Benedotto Croce

“The aim of all human polity is happiness. There is no obligation to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or in any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happy.”

G.K. Chesterton Outline of Sanity.