I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day, said Mr. Irwine. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Iris Murdoch

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other

Charles Dickens

I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.

Jesse Helms

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Voltaire

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joseph Joubert

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Junius

In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Confucius

She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity -- and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.

Marguerite Duras

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

Alexander Hamilton

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

Norman Mailer

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

Thomas Aquinas

In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.

Albert Einstein