He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Thomas Fuller

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

Dylan Thomas

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Sir Matthew Hale

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

John Bates Clark

Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain?

Frederick William Faber

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joseph Joubert

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

Tracey Ullman

I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.

Mos Def

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

Marilyn Monroe

In a state of conflict or a conflicted state.

Christopher Hitchens

I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.

Kerry Washington

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Johann von Goethe