There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Edmund Burke

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Jane Austen

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain]

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.

Jennifer Donnelly

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Jean Nathan

I'm in the booth and first of all, I'm from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.

Boris Kodjoe

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

James Russell Lowell

Smile. Your eyes sparkle when you do.

Coco J. Ginger

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.

Chris Hayes

He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness.

Arthur C. Clarke