Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

Calvin Coolidge

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

John Locke

In Paris today, millions of pounds of bread are sold daily, made during the previous night by those strange, half-naked beings one glimpses through cellar windows, whose wild-seeming cries floating out of those depths always makes a painful impression. In the morning, one sees these pale men, still white with flour, carrying a loaf under one arm, going off to rest and gather new strength to renew their hard and useful labor when night comes again. I have always highly esteemed the brave and humble workers who labor all night to produce those soft but crusty loaves that look more like cake than bread.

Alexander Dumas

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood

Benjamin Franklin

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Thomas Kempis

I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.

Robert Benchley

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

Pietro Aretino

Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.

Gena Showalter

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Edgar Quinet

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

Christopher Hitchens

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.

Jean de La Fontaine