Quotations from Brainy Smurf 136

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched--they must be felt with the heart." --Hellen Keller

"By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education...From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments." --Russell Baker, columnist and author (1925- )

"Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do." --Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and novelist (1811-1896)

"It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong." --G.K. Chesterton, essayist and novelist (1874-1936)