Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

W. Wirt

Energy and persistence conquer all thing.

Benjamin Franklin

No one can withstand the charm of such a mystery.

Jane Austen

Real art can only rarely be created even by a real artist; like a child in a mother's womb, it is the ripened fruit of his prior life. False art, though, can be ceaseless produced by craftsmen, according to the dictates of a market.

Leo Tolstoy

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Victor Hugo

Once respect has been initiated, war is less provocative.

Andrea Scholer

Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Alex Noble

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Joseph Addison

You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up-

Cassandra Clare

The sight made her ache. she thought hopelessly, and then she was doing it, her fingers on his wrist. He didn't jump or even look at her, just stopped writing. Neither one of them moved, nothing moved, and the whole thing lasted three or four seconds at most, but when Pen took her hand away and started to breathe again, her chest hurt, as though she had been holding her breath for a very long time.

Marisa de los Santos

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Wallace Stevens

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

C. Northcote Parkinson