But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all through, and none of the longest. Small blame to us if we give our whole hearts to this glowing bride of ours, to the appetities, to honour, to the hungry curiosity of the mind, to the pleasure of the eyes in nature, and the pride of our own nimble bodies.

Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Saint Augustine

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Mark Twain

Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.

James Russell Lowell

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things they denote.

Samuel Johnson

But as far as true goodness was concerned, that didn't exist - not in the land of cowardly men.

Paulo Coelho

There has to be new words to explain new worlds.

Toba Beta

Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at mornings And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts.

A. E. Housman

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

Harry Houdini

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.

Albert Einstein

They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town,

Jane Austen

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

Leonardo DiCaprio