There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

Walter Lippmann

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

George Bernard Shaw

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

Hugh Blair

Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

Ovid

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't.

Denis Leary

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Arthur Ashe

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

George Santayana

I hid my love when young till ICouldn't bear the buzzing of a fly;I hid my life to my despiteTill I could not bear to look at light:I dare not gaze upon her faceBut left her memory in each place;Where'er I saw a wild flower lieI kissed and bade my love good-bye.

John Clare

I always knew I would look back at the times I'd cried and laugh, but I never knew that I'd look back at the times I'd laughed and cry.

Shaun Prowdzik

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

Aulus Persius Flaccus

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

T. S. Eliot