It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think to be phenomenons, quite ... Aye, and even in gen-teel families, in high families, in great families ... and you have no idea ... what games goes on!

Charles Dickens

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Eric Butterworth

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Karl Marx

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C.P. (Charles Percy) Snow

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

George Eliot

Love happens in the strangest places at the strangest times.

Andrew Sturm

He felt even angrier that Dumbledore was showing signs of weakness. He had no business being weak when Harry wanted to rage and storm at him.

J.K. Rowling

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

Anthony Trollope

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

John Stuart Mill

The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved.

Sue Grafton

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Mark Twain

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

Friedrich von Schiller