If one hears bad music it is one's duty to drown it in conversation.

Oscar Wilde

Honor lies in honest toil.

Grover Cleveland (1837-1908), 22nd and 24th US president

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

Sarah Fielding (1710-1768)

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect, are the qualities which make a real gentleman, or lady, as distinguished from the veneered article which commonly goes by that name.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannnot endure it.... Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

George Bernard Shaw