All nature is but art unknown to thee.

There stood a man with his sword drawn, and his face all over with blood. Then said Mr. Great-Heart, Who art thou? The man made answer, saying, I am one whose name is Valiant-for-truth. I am a pilgrim, and am going to the Celestial City.

John Bunyan

Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.

Stephen King

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

George Meredith

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

Elizabeth Bowen

Travelling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

Thomas Jefferson

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

Hippocrates

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Joseph Chamberlain

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

Millard Fuller

The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

Alice Walker

Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.

Jane Austen

I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark

Stephen Hawking

Very sweetly, he always told her he loved her just the way she was. Although, honestly he had no idea. She shuddered to think what she would really look like if she stopped waxing, plucking, highlighting, manicuring, applying make-up anddressing with care and concentration.

Carmen Reid