No man is hurt but by himself

Greek, sir, is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can.

Samuel Johnson

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Johann Georg Zimmermann

Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.

Junipero Serra

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Henry Fielding

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

William Feather

I think intelligence is totally subjective it's like sexiness.

David Fincher

To every dreamer, you direct the light of all the world!

Tamara Henson

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.

Elizabeth Janeway

Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.

LaoTzu

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Elie Wiesel

It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.

George Porter

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity

David Hume