The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

William Lloyd Garrison

The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species. It may be a long farewell, but it has begun and, like all farewells, should not be protracted.

Christopher Hitchens

The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.

Lord Shawcross

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Iris Murdoch

Whilst the last members were signing the Constitution, Doctor Franklin, looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art, a rising, from a setting, sun. I have, said he, often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President, without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting; but now at length, I have the happiness to know, that it is a rising, and not a setting sun.

Benjamin Franklin

The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

William James

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Benjamin Franklin

Last week my tie caught on fire. Some guy tried to put it out with an ax!

Rodney Dangerfield

I have as much input to the blues I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.

Luther Allison

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

Orison Swett Marden

The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.

Bruno Bauer

Grief makes you feel alone, but you're not. I know you don't believe in-in religion-the same way I do, but you can believe you're surrounded by people who love you, can't you?

Cassandra Clare