Things Worth Knowing

"A poet is someone who is astonished by everything."- Anon.

"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

"A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops."
- Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)

"The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens."- Thomas Jefferson

"Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth."- Benjamin Disraeli

"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."- Henry Van Dyke

"Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead."- Anonymous

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."- Martin Luther King, Jr.