Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

John Dryden

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Rebecca West

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

Thomas Huxley

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Barbara de Angelis

Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

Tim Kaine

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Robertson Davies

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

Sophocles

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost

I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.

Sylvia Brownrigg

If I'm diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.

Gus Van Sant

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

Albert Camus