Thoughtful Thursday

"I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere. Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength."
- Henry David Thoreau

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden

Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.
- Henry David Thoreau

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
- George Orwell

We had the experience but missed the meaning.
- T. S. Eliot

The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
- Thomas Jefferson