Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished?

Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.

E. M. Cioran

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Abraham Lincoln

Homosexuality, is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love-all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.

Plato

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

Horace

I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.

Edmund Spenser

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

William Christopher Handy

Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

William Shakespeare

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

Ann Bancroft

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

Bernard Manning

No cross no crown.

Francis Quarles