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1 " Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. "
― Aristotle
2 " The trouble is," sighed the Doctor, grasping her meaning intuitively, " that youth is given up to illusions. It seems to be a provision of Nature; a decoy to secure mothers for the race. And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost. "
3 " From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up the First Amendment, they inserted a provision in the Constitution expressly prohibiting any religious test for office. "