We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship.

Epicurus

I have supposed the black man, in his present state, might not be in body and mind equal to the white man; but it would be hazardous to affirm that, equally cultivated for a few generations, he would not become so

Thomas Jefferson

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Thomas Carlyle

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience... The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.

Johann von Goethe

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

Kin Hubbard

Though all the guns be silenced,each soldier in his home,There is no peace till Love comes,till the meek may safely roam.

C.P. Klapper

The Noblest form of Affection

Oscar Wilde

There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.

Terry Pratchett

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Art of

I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.

Christina Hendricks

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)