History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

William Shenstone

There are few good women who do not tire of their role.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.

Harriet Tubman

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

John Green

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

St. Francis De Sales

And I, Mr. Knightley, am equally stout in my confidence of its not doing them any harm. With all dear Emma's little faults, she is an excellent creature. Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend? No, no; she has qualities which may be trusted; she will never lead any one really wrong; she will make no lasting blunder; where Emma errs once, she is in the right a hundred times.

Jane Austen, Emma, ch. 5

Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old. To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem.

Henry David Thoreau

The seasons are colliding together, storms are destroying lives, and love is a dangerous curse.-The Vangeretta Curse

Christina Mobley

When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life.

DeForest Soaries

I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Henry David Thoreau

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

Flannery O'Connor

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Robert Schumann