Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. And what are you reading, Miss -- -? Oh! it is only a novel! replies the young lady; while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda ; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

William Ernest Henley

Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage

Richard Paul Evans

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.

Hilda Solis

While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.

Eric Butterworth

I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

Marc Garneau

I like the truth, even when it does trouble me.

Juliet Marillier

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

John Gardner

Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.

James Russell Lowell

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Stephen Covey

Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music

Martin Luther King Jr.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

William Lyon Phelps