I can count on one hand how many people I trust.

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us.

Joseph Addison

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Willem de Kooning

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

George Bernard Shaw

So many women keep their anger inside and let it build until they explode and then people blow them off again.

Rosalind Wiseman

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

Joseph Conrad

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

Mark Hopkins

While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself.

Thomas Frank

There are plenty of theories to listen to and follow but truth yearns to be discovered. When you find it, there is no doubt where to go.

E'yen A. Gardner

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

Nikola Tesla

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

John Tillotson