Thoughtful Thursday

"Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far."
- Jean Cocteau

"If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."
- Edgar Howe

"You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise."
- Seneca

"The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities."
- Theodore Roosevelt

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

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
- Helen Keller

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
- Marie Curie