Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

George Orwell

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consists in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

Thomas Paine

Everyone is always in favor of general economy and particular expenditure.

Sir Anthony Eden

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

They that mistake life's accessories for life itself are like them that go too fast in a maze: their very haste confuses them

Seneca

Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?

Charles L. Allen

Blame is the creed of the disempowered.

Steve Maraboli

Trees that grow in smoggy cities are needed to make carbonpaper.

Steven Wright

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

William Blake

Speech is always bolder than action.

Friedrich von Schiller

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Cesar Chavez