Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

Proverb

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Emily Dickinson

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

Jane Austen

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

Brad Gilbert

I dreamt of turrets and craggy ledges where the windswept rain blew in from the ocean with the odor of violets. A pale woman in Elizabethan dress stood beside my bed and whispered in my ear that the bells would ring. An old salt in an oilcloth jacket sat atop a piling, mending nets with an awl, while far out at sea a tiny aeroplane winged its way towards the setting sun.

Alan Bradley

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

David Ricardo

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Blaise Pascal

I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.

Esai Morales

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.N. B.: This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.

S. G. Tallentyre, The Friends of

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Sally Kempton