The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

William Makepeace Thackeray

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Charles Montesquieu

It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God.

George Washington

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde

I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it.

Dianne Wiest

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.

Brad Henry

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.

Lenny Kravitz

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Ovid

To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night -- brothers who see now they are truly brothers.

Archibald MacLeish

Canada's the best country in the world.

Justin Bieber

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

Jean de la Bruyere

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

Alan Mollohan