I've never met a woman with divine sweetness in her eyes, or a delicacy in her smile that was so glorious, that it made my heart ascend to grace.

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Robertson Davies

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

Theodore Parker

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

William Shakespeare

There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.

Edith Hamilton

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

Ray Kroc

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

Henry Ward Beecher

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

John Cheever

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A will finds a way.

Orison Swett Marden

Work with your competitors when the interest of the community and planet are at stake.

Simon Mainwaring

The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.

St. Bernard