More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.

Eugen Herrigel

Form follows emotion

Walter Isaacson

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

Recall, then, some event that has left a distinct impression on you---how at the corner of the street, perhaps, you passed two people talking. A tree shook; an electric light danced; the tone of the talk was comic, but also tragic; a whole vision, an entire conception, seemed contained in that moment.But when you attempt to reconstruct it in words, you will find that it breaks into a thousand conflicting impressions.

Virginia Woolf

Common Sense is in medicine the master workman.

Peter Latham

All would live long; but none would be old

Benjamin Franklin

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

Source Unknown

We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued. The slaves were undeniably a element of strength to those who had their service, and we must decide whether that element should be with us or against us. Emancipation, will strike at the heart of the rebellion. <br/><br/>Said to Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles.

Abraham Lincoln

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

Marilyn Hacker

All I can think is that I want her more than anything. I want her more than I've ever wanted anything, ever.

Angela Johnson

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

May Sarton

Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.

J.K. Rowling