Thoughtful Thursday

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.."
- George Santayana

"Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied."
- Mark Twain

"Men are what their mothers made them."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.... The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it."
- Eric Hoffer

"To weep is to make less the depth of grief."
- William Shakespeare

"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."
- Alfred North Whitehead

"During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk."
- Soren Kierkegaard