I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with a blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.

Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.

Henry David Thoreau

Nothing is more discouraging than unappreciated sarcasm.

Source Unknown

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.

Blanche Lincoln

My kids give me the balance to live right.

Celine Dion

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Jean Anouilh

Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Edith Wharton

To love is to act.

Victor Hugo

Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.

Virgil

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

W. Winwood Reade

Eh, gentlemen, let us reckon upon accidents! Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.

Alexandre Dumas

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Havelock Ellis