Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parson's damn.

Friendship, 'the wine of life,' said Boswell, should, like a well-stocked cellar, be thus continually renewed. And Dr. Johnson added to this A man, Sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Samuel Johnson

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

Douglas William Jerrold

One woman who managed to corner him, the story runs, said in a treacly gushing voice:Doesnt it thrill you, Mr. Churchill, to know that every time you make a speech the hall is packed to overflowing?It is quite flattering, Mr. Churchill replied, but whenever I feel this way I always remember that if instead of making a political speech I was being hanged, the crowd would be twice as big.

Sir Winston Churchill

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Victor Hugo

The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.

Paul Gauguin

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Margaret Oliphant

Assume a virtue if you have it not.

William Shakespeare

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

Robert Welch

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

George Washington Carver

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Edmund Burke

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Walter Bagehot

Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.

Walter Gilbert