Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.

Catherine Helen Spence

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts -- the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

John Ruskin

Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.

Proverb

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

William Godwin

I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.

Matt LeBlanc

My first attempt at a kiss was in fifth grade, but it didn't go so well. Later, I used Boyz II Men and Jodeci songs to come on to girls. I had more success.

John Legend

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

Randall Jarrell

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw

Singing when no one else is around is always good. I especially like belters. Good, loud singing is probably better medicine than half the stuff they sell in pill bottles, and it's cheaper, too. I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feel of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.

Erin McKean

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Napoleon Bonaparte

In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

Daniel Dennett

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

C.S. Lewis