Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.

Rachel Naomi Remen

Good, better, best; never let it rest till your good is better and your better is best.

Anonymous

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair

Kahlil Gibran

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Karl Von Clausewitz

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Ludwig van Beethoven

A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.

Moira Kelly

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court.

Proverb

Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?

Oliver Heaviside

What we call personality (...) has become the most impersonal thing in the world. Its pale and featureless face appears like a ghost at every corner and in every crowd. ... Individualism kills individuality, precisely because individualism has to be an 'ism' quite as much as Communism or Calvinism. The economic and ethical school which calls itself individualist ended by threatening the world with the flattest and dullest spread of the commonplace. Men, instead of being themselves, set out to find a self to be: a sort of abstract economic self identified with self-interest. But while the self was that of a man, the self-interest was generally that of a class or a trade or even an empire. So far from really remaining a separate self, the man became part of a communal mass of selfishness.

G. K. Chesterton, February 25, 1

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Denis Diderot

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Thomas Paine