Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.

Joan Baez

The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.

Edgar Allan Poe, The Philosophy

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Alexander Pope

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

Plautus

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

David Arquette

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

Source Unknown

Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking

Kahlil Gibran

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

Thomas Huxley

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

Ivan Turgenev

Must the interest of life wane for us all as the progress of knowledge curtails the playground of imagination? No doubt it must in some measure, but there is another cause.I believe that in these days we have too many occupations, too many interests; we know too many things, and, if you will, have too many advantages and facilities. Our faculty of taking an interest is dissipated and frittered away.

Eha

The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim's check-books.

Silas Weir Mitchell

In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.

Helen Rowland