Quotes of the day, September 13

Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

Herbert Spencer

• Progress
• Accidents

The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.

Herbert Spencer

• Children
• Mother
• Speech

A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.

William Hazlitt

• Spring
• Situation
• Anxiety

Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.

Aristotle

• Confidence
• Proof
• Noble

A real friend is someone who does n0t give you expectation about delivering on some kind of peer group pressure.

Tony Orlando

What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.

Vincent Van Gogh

• Humans
• Bird
• Adversity