I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Thomas Kempis

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis

Some evils are cured by contempt.

Proverb

I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

Henry James

Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

Simone Weil

Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective

Bertrand Russell

Be bold! That's one way Of getting through life. So I turn upon her And point out that, Faced with the wickedness Of things, she does not shiver.

Archilochus

I don't care how wonderful heaven is, I won't be content waiting thirty years for you.

Jason F. Wright

To dance through life, makes a rough journey more enjoyable.

Roger W Hancock

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

David Cronenberg

I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided b

George Washington

It all comes down to who's by your side.

Nicholas Sparks