When disposition wins us, the features please.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

Thomas Brackett Reed

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

Antoine Rivarol

Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.

Poul Anderson

Let who will make the laws of a nation so long as I am permitted to make her songs.

Andrew Fletcher

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

Jawaharlal Nehru

A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

E. S. Bouton

Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives.

Paulo Coelho

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I'm not stupid!' In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

Orson Scott Card

said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the reverse: To us, no aliens are human.

Christopher Hitchens