But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association.

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Henry David Thoreau

That science is incapable of solving in its own way those fundamental questions is no sufficient reason for slighting them

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

Dick Armey

Moonlight is sculpture.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Bette Davis

But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps, at the edge of a broken city, just beyond a towering city dump; and our arrival-hungry, and half-frozen, to a place of food and water and walls that keep out the brutal winds. This, for us, is heaven.

Lauren Oliver

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Marcus Aurelius

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.

Karen Armstrong

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

Thomas Fuller

Small businesses pay 18 percent more than big businesses for health care, the same health care, just because they're small and they have too small a pool of risk.

Karen Mills