"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions" - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men." - John Locke
"We are not traitors or murderers or fanatics, but true Christians and good commonwealthsmen, fixed and constant in that noble principle of preferring the universality before particularity. We fought for the public good and would have enfranchised the people and secured the welfare of the whole groaning creation, if the nation had not more delighted in servitude than in freedom." - John Cooke