It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.

Sara Teasdale

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

C. Wright Mills

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Frank Lloyd Wright

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.

Gottfried Leibniz

We are what we believe we are.

C.S. Lewis

Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls, I passed close to the Marsh refinery, which seemed to be oddly free from the noise of industry. The building stood on the steep river bluff near a bridge and an open confluence of streets which I took to be the earliest civic center, displaced after the Revolution by the present Town Square.

H.P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

Lord Byron

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

Albert Einstein

For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

Ezra Pound

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

Thomas Jefferson

In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.

James Dyson