Ellery A. Kane Quotes

“My mother once told me that holding on to the past is like walking around with a pebble in your shoe. You can still keep walking, keep moving forward, but that pebble is always there nagging at you, begging for your attention. After a while, that pebble is all you can feel. Sometimes, you just have to stop walking for a minute and get rid of it once and for all.”

“Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.”

“Life has a higher end, than to be amused.”

“The world is governed by opinion.”

“Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.”

“It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.”

“No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.”

“God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.”

“How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.”

“The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.”