The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.

I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I awoke -- and found that life was duty.

Ellen Stugis Hooper

It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.

O. Henry

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

Pietro Aretino

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

Ambrose Bierce

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world

C.S. Lewis

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

David Byrne

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

Akhenaton

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart

Edmund Burke

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.

Jodi Picoult

A house divided against itself cannot stand -- I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

Abraham Lincoln

No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.

Jodi Picoult