“We should not be immeasurably satisfied with the qualities of a mediocre person, but we should also avoid artificial modesty.”

Fingers Pointing Towards The Moon (1958)

Avons-nous fui la compagnie des personnes mondaines, que les Saints conseillent, surtout aux Ecclésiastiques, d&#x27;éviter, comme des pestiférés, que l&#x27;on ne voit que par nécessité , et dont on se sépare le plutôt que l&#x27;on peut? <br class="br">Examens particuliers sur divers sujets, p. 322 http://books.google.com/books?id=esY9AAAAIAAJ&amp;pg=PA322 <br class="br">Examens particuliers sur divers sujets [Examination of Conscience upon Special Subjects] (1690)

Interview With Archbishop Leo Boccardi Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See (Vatican Ambassador) to the Islamic Republic of Iran https://en.shafaqna.com/63185/interview-with-archbishop-leo-boccardi-apostolic-nuncio-of-the-holy-see-vatican-ambassador-to-the-islamic-republic-of-iran-2/ (28 May 2018)

As quoted in The Business of Transatlantic Migration between Europe and the United States, 1900–1914 (2012), by Drew Keeling, p. 161
1900s, Message to Congress (1905)
Context: It is unwise to depart from the old American tradition and discriminate for or against any man who desires to come here and become a citizen, save on the ground of that man's fitness for citizenship.... We can not afford to consider whether he is Catholic or Protestant, Jew or Gentile; whether he is Englishman or Irishman, Frenchman or German, Japanese, Italian, or Scandinavian, or Magyar. What we should desire to find out is the individual quality of the individual man.

Introduction, p. 4
A Plea for the Animals (2014)

Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf, p. 237

Luther King&quot; http://gos.sbc.edu/g/gandhi2.html&quot;Martin, speech at the presentation of the Jawaharial Nehru Award for International Understanding to Coretta Scott King in New Delhi, India (January 24, 1969). Published in Selected Speeches and Writings of Indira Gandhi, September 1972-March 1977 (New Delhi : Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 1984. pp. 312-313). <br class="br">Context: We admired Dr. King. We felt his loss as our own. The tragedy rekindled memories of the great martyrs of all time who gave their lives so that men might live and grow. We thought of the great men in your own country who fell to the assassin&#x27;s bullet and of Mahatma Gandhi&#x27;s martyrdom here in this city, this very month, twenty-one years ago. Such events remain as wounds in the human consciousness, reminding us of battles, yet to be fought and tasks still to be accomplished. We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.

As quoted in Dirty Little Secrets : Military Information You're Not Supposed To Know (1990) by James F. Dunnigan and Albert A. Nofi, p. 50

Endorsement of a letter relating to the Whiskey Ring (29 July 1875).
1870s