Joel Conley

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain