Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

Ludwig von Mises

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

Anatole France

Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

Bertolt Brecht

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.

Marlene Dietrich

I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not because I'm not a fighter.

Herman Cain

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

Terry Pratchett

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Thomas C. Haliburton

We have met with so overwhelming an affliction in the death of our beloved Willie, a being too precious for this earth. All that human skill could do, was done for our sainted boy. I fully believe the severe illness [scarlet fever], he passed through, now, almost two years since, was but a warning to us, that one so pure, was not to remain long here and at the same time, he was lent us a little longer to try us and wean us from a world whose chains were fastening around us; and when the blow came it found us so unprepared to meet it. …He has fulfilled his mission and we are left desolate. When I think over his short but happy childhood, how much comfort, he always was to me, and how fearfully I always found my hopes concentrating on so good a boy as he was - when I can bring myself to realize that he has indeed passed away, my question to myself is, ‘can life be endured?’.

Mary Ann Todd Lincoln, From lett

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything, more than the history of human errors

Voltaire

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues....

George Orwell

For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night.

Sophocles