When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Plutarch

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

George Bernard Shaw

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

Leon Trotsky

Participate in your own dreams, don't just say what you want or complain about what you don't have.

Steve Maraboli

Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

Julie Burchill

Covenants, without the sword, are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at all. The bonds of words are too weak to bridle man's ambition, avarice, anger, and other passions, without the fear of some coercive power.

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1660

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not bea christian.

Mark Twain

Money is a tremendous advantage in just about everything, but in terms of reproduction, if you're a poor woman and you are infertile, it's like too bad, so sad. And if you are a wealthy woman, you can kind of buy whatever you want.

Jennifer Weiner

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Washington Irving

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

Bishop Robert South

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice