Beautiful Sayings

● The Statue of Liberty ought not to be made of iron, for iron reminds you of the chains for whose breaking that statue was raised.

● Grudges are the serpents of the breast.

● Heroes, with the ropes of their gallows, string the chords of their imagination on the plains of glory.

● Charlotte Corday, slayer of the French tyrant Marat, showed great courage upon the guillotine, and one of the great men of the Revolution said of her:
“This woman is killing us, but she teaches us how we ought to die. From such a woman let man take a lesson.”

● Beauty without virtue is like a flower without fragrance. — Socrates

● In harming your enemy, you have placed yourself beneath him; in taking revenge upon him, you have made yourself his equal; and in forgiving him, you have risen far above him...

● The wise man is he who carries his wisdom as he carries his watch — not for display, but for personal use.

● We were created with two eyes and one mouth, that we might see twice as much as we speak.

● We — men and women — are both in one boat upon a raging sea, and all that we need is faithfulness to one another.

● The wise woman is she who does not tell people what she does, yet refuses to do any deed that cannot be spoken of among people!