One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.

Josh McDowell

What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and desert their chosen intendeds for my sake?' 'Because they can't help it, miss,' replied the girl; 'the reason's plain.' (If Miss Squeers were the reason, it was very plain.)

Charles Dickens

Beautiful things like beautiful sins belong to the rich

Oscar Wilde

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

Alexander Herzen

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything.

Anon.

Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.

Billy Corgan

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Chanakya

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

Euripides

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant;the only harmless great thing.

John Donne

So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.

Michael Stipe

Deny Self for Self's sake

Benjamin Franklin