Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

Martin Short

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

Jane Austen

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

Agatha Christie

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Tobias G. Smollett

So let man consider of what he was created; he was created of gushing water issuing between the loins and the breast-bones.

Qur'an

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.

Dionne Warwick

And now the sagacious reader, who is capable of reading into these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception of the serious feelings with which I then set foot in Emmendingen.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.

Blaise Pascal

Hagrid looked down at his umbrella and scratched his beard. 'Shouldn'ta lost me temper,' he said ruefully, 'but it didn't work anyway. Meant ter turn him into a pig, but I suppose he was so much like a pig anyway there wasn't much left ter do.

J.K. Rowling

I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.

Captain J. G. Stedman

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Aldous Huxley

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

Aeschylus