Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

George Burns

I do not know which makes a man more conservative -- to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

John Maynard Keynes

It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.

Mark Twain

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Mike Murdock

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

Jamie Foxx

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

Jonathan Haidt

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

John Dryden

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Honore de Balzac

The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Walter Bagehot

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Robert Chambers

I've got no education.

Andrea Arnold