We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

Georges Duhamel, The Heart's Dom

Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

Aldous Huxley

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

William O. Douglas

The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life...

George Orwell, Riding Down from

Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Matthew Prior

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

Jonathan Swift

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Lucille S. Harper

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Theodore Roosevelt

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

H. L. Mencken

Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.

Benjamin Carson

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

Ludovico Ariosto

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

Michael Crichton