America a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and farreaching in purpose., Herbert Hoover, US mining engineer politician (1874 1964)
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn, Philip Massinger,

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water., Yiddish Proverb,
He who knows others is wiseHe who know himself is enlightened., Laotzu, The Way of Laotzu, Chinese philosopher (604 BC 531 BC)
Good men must be affectionate men., Samuel Richardson, English epistolary novelist (1689 1761)