Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so is dearly purchased at a sacrifice.

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Samuel Johnson

I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W.I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never.

Jane Austen

Beer is made by men, wine by God.

Martin Luther King Jr.

My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.

Amy Sedaris

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

Charles Wadworth

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

Salvador Dali

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

Honore de Balzac

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

John Charles Polanyi

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Helen Keller

Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.

John Cusack

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

Voltaire

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

Oliver Herford