Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done.

William Shakespeare

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Albert Einstein

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose also the first announcement of death.

Peter Conrad

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

Mary McCarthy

I am lord of myself, accountable to none.

Benjamin Franklin

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it

James Gibbons Huneker

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Anita Brookner

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness not to sin offers only punishment.

Jose Bergamin

When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City.

Steve Burns

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

Josh Billings

The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Gilbert K. Chesterton