His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

Eva Peron

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

Quintilian

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

Christopher Morley

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Brigid Brophy

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

Jensen Ackles

To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and appetite for life that gives the power to record everyday happenings while magically freeing them from banality and triviality.

William Plomer

If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards.

Suze Orman

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

Doris Lessing

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

Dave Barry

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

Marcel Proust

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

John Lancaster Spalding, Means a