Thoughtful Thursday

"You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened."
- Hector Hugh Monro

"Fear is the parent of cruelty."
- James Anthony Froude

"Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."
- Marcel Proust

"Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent."
- William Durant

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it."
- Christopher Morley

"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them."
- Paul Valery