What a mess the world was in, Vimes reflected. Constable Visit had told him the meek would inherit it, and what had the poor devils done to deserve that?

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Honore de Balzac

The poem refreshes life so that we share, For a moment, the first idea... It satisfies Belief in an immaculate beginning And sends us, winged by an unconscious will, To an immaculate end.

Wallace Stevens

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

Sean O'Casey, Sunset and Evening

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Hermann Hesse

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, Where? What? and turn away.

Christina Rossetti

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.

Samuel Johnson

Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom.

Chinese Proverb

I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.

Stone Gossard

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Samuel Johnson

You never monkey with the truth.

Ben Bradlee