Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

All that the hand of man can uprear, is either overturned by the hand of man, or at length by standing and continuing consumed: as if there were a secret opposition in Fate (the unevitable decree of the Eternal) to control our industry, and countercheck all our devices and proposing. Possessions are not enduring, children lose their names. . . .

William Drummond

...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Jane Austen

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

Robert Hewison

You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

Barbara Ehrenreich

In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.

Carl Gustav Jung

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

Napoleon Hill

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Helen Macinness

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

Fred Rogers

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

Isaac Watts

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

V. S. Pritchett