Quotes from authors born on Dec 4th
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
Samuel Butler
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Samuel Butler
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Samuel Butler
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas Carlyle
William Penn 
Desmond Harrington 
Eleanor Robson Belmont 
Willard Scott 
John Quincy Adams 
Michael Beschloss 
Danica McKellar 
Elie Wiesel