Ann i wasn't in saganaw so i didn't hear the talk but did search for quotes and found these. hope one is the one you wanted jonathan quotes by Smith, Sydney "It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can." "Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them." "It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them." "Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect." "To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence." "Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up." "Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything." "A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience." "Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time." "Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory." "It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects." "Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence." "It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him." "Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures." "What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?"