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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. —Marie Curie (Image licensed by Penn Wealth) Tackle an action to the best of your ability and then, whether you were...

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit. —Publilius Syrus (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. —Petrarch (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)

Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then...

It is not what you look at that matters; it is what you see. —Henry David Thoreau (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. —John Steinbeck (1939, by McFadden Publications; Public Domain)

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so. —Will Rogers (Image licensed by Penn Wealth) 

Humility must accompany all of our actions and be our companion everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works, they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue. —Saint Augustine...

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities. —David Hume...

Hell is a half-filled auditorium. —Robert Frost (Image licensed by Penn Wealth) 

Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they knew to be right cannot be done. —Russell Davenport, American author and...