How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.

Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.

Samuel Gompers

Penser, c'est réapprendre ? voir, ? être attentif, c'est diriger sa conscience, c'est faire de chaque idée et de chaque image, ? la façon de Proust, un lieu privilégié

Albert Camus

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

Jane Austen

There's always moral instruction whether the writer inserts it deliberately or not. The least effective moral instruction in fiction is that which is consciously inserted. Partly because it won't reflect the storyteller's true beliefs, it will only reflect what he BELIEVES he believes, or what he thinks he should believe or what he's been persuaded of. But when you write without deliberately expressing moral teachings, the morals that show up are the ones you actually live by. The beliefs that you don't even think to question, that you don't even notice-- those will show up. And that tells much more truth about what you believe than your deliberate moral machinations.

Orson Scott Card

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

Maurice Sendak

No good deed goes unpunished.(attributed aphorism)

Clare Boothe Luce, The Book of L

I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

Peggy Cahn

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

David Lloyd George

Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

William Shakespeare

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

But Justice, though her dome doom she doe prolong,Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.

Edmund Spenser

The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.

Giuseppe Mazzini