It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.

How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Henry David Thoreau

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

But love's a malady without a cure.

John Dryden

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

Tupac Shakur

I think that the problem is that people fear so many things and they don't live life to its fullest. And for me as an artist, if God should want me to come this Wednesday to the end of my life, so be it.

Criss Angel

The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.

Werner Heisenberg

Time is the wisest counselor of all, but Cosmic Ordering is the biggest provider.

Stephen Richards

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

Ron Paul

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.

Sydney Smiles

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

Barbara Cartland

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

Rob Brydon