Love of country is like love of woman -- he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.

John Lancaster Spalding

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Mark Twain

I hope there are some audiophiles still out there.

Norah Jones

I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.

Cate Blanchett

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Abraham Lincoln

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Jacob Bronowski

The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.

Ian Botham

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Benjamin Franklin

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

Logan Pearsall Smith

For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.

Anatole France

The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.

Thomas Jefferson

There is nobody more terrible than the desperate.

Alexander Suvorov