O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

Charles Caleb Colton

Antiguo oficio humano, este de querer apagar la luz. ¿Te acordás de la última vez que creímos poder iluminar la noche?.

Gioconda Belli

Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor?Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest.Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart.Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.

William Shakespeare

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

Mary Wollstonecraft

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

Edward Sapir

If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

Source Unknown

Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

Zebulon Pike

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Dag Hammarskjold

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Ambrose Bierce

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

Gustave Flaubert

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

James Allen