Thought for Today

"The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves."

~~~~~ Eric Hoffer

Thought for Today

"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."

~~~~~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thought for Today

"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

~~~~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought for Today

"This is a wonderful, decent nation, brimming with millions of people who take people as they find them and do what is right because that is their character. Moreover, the United States is chock-a-block with institutions, customs, and most of all families that encourage and foster good character as an end in itself."

~~~~~~~ Jonah Goldberg

Thought for Today

"Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time."

~~~~~ Edmund Burke

Thought for Today

"We must beware of the dangers that lie in our most generous wishes. Some paradox of our nature leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion."

~~~~~ Lionel Trilling

Thought for Today

"Do for others with no desire of returned favor. We all should plant some trees we'll never sit under. Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."

~~~~~ Alexander Pope