The promise had not failed her.... She had won everything from life, for she had given the world a master. Words seemed to speak themselves in her ear... Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Henry David Thoreau

In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art - the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard

Anne Rice

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Laurence Sterne

Friendly counsel cuts off many foes

William Shakespeare

It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines out (she glanced at the window with its ripple of reflected lights) in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby; so that again tonight she had the feeling she had had once today, already, of peace, of rest. Of such moments, she thought, the thing is made that endures.

Virginia Woolf

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.

Harold S. Geneen

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

Stevie Nicks

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Vernon Howard

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

Ernest Hemingway

Let the spirit of adventure set the tone.

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I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

George Orwell