So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.

Mitt Romney

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.

H. P. Blavatsky

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Thomas Carlyle

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

Karl Marx

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.

Martin Luther

In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

James Dyson

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

Sigmund Freud

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.

John Pomfret

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

Cyril Connolly

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Friedrich Von Schlegel

Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it

Mark Twain