Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice can not sleep forever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference!

Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.

Edgar Degas

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

Pearl S. Buck

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

Henry David Thoreau

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift

Seneca

No star is ever lost we once have seen,We always may be what we might have been.

Adelaide Proctor

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

Madeleine L'Engle

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been devided as fools and madmen.

Aldous Huxley

You should never ask actors about politics.

Liev Schreiber

The coward sneaks to death the brave live on.

George Sewell

If you are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life, your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

George Bernard Shaw

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence

Samuel Johnson

Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.

Leonardo da Vinci