“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot. . .

Nothing is going to get better. . .

It’s not!”

—Theodore Geisel, “Dr. Seuss” (“The Lorax”)

“Wait and see. . .”

—Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith

“Genius is one per cent inspiration. . .

and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. . .”

—Thomas Alva Edison

“The only reward of virtue is virtue;

The only way to have a friend is to be one. . .”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Brevity is the soul of wit. . .”

—William Shakespeare (“Polonius”)

“If the counsel be good. . .

No matter who gave it. . .”

—T. Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

“The greatest good. . .”

—Marcus Tullius Cicero

“To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. . .”

—Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield