It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

Wallace Stevens

In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he worth? In Philadelphia, Who were his parents?

Mark Twain

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.

Gerald W. Johnson

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

What tickles the soul, makes all the world well again

Leandra J. Kalsy

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

Francis Bacon

For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the seasons of snows and sins;The days dividing lover and lover,The light that loses, the night that wins;And time remembered is grief forgotten,And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,And in green underwood and coverBlossom by blossom the spring begins.

Algernon Charles Swinburne, Atal

When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.

Robert Duvall

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

Brooke Foss Westcott

How to Draw a Picture (XII)Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

Stephen King

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells