The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.

Charles Dickens

The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.

Thomas Carlyle

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Samuel Butler

My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.

Derek Jeter

Under the wide and starry sky,

Adlai Stevenson

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

George Bernard Shaw

I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.

Ann Voskamp

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

Archibald Rutledge

My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.

Albert Finney

Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.

H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chresto

For it needs little skill in psychology to be sure that a highly gifted girl who had tried to use her gift for poetry would have been so thwarted and hindered by other people, so tortured and pulled asunder by her own contrary instincts, that she must have lost her health and sanity to a certainty.

Virginia Woolf

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you, or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert

Kahlil Gibran