Quotes (#479)

Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of
your liberties; write its precepts in your
hearts, and practice them in your lives.
- Ulysses S. Grant

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot
do everything, but I can do something.
And I will not let what I cannot do
interfere with what I can do.
- Edward Everett Hale

I have one request: may I never
use my reason against the truth.
- Hasidic prayer

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose
were to ensure that by the time they leave school every
boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and
be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
- Sir William Haley

Life demands from you only the strength you possess.
Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
- Dag Hammarskjold

"Every quotation contributes something to the
stability or enlargement of the language"
- Samuel Johnson (1709–84)