The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

Anthony Hope

There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.

George A. Smith

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

Walter Benjamin

When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of her coming to Lyme, to preach patience and resignation to a young man whom she had never seen before; nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

Jane Austen

It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

Terry Pratchett

Fear God and work hard.

David Livingstone

Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).

Frederik Pohl

When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better--her husband; money; his books. But for her own part she would never for a single second regret her decision, evade difficulties, or slur over duties

Virginia Woolf

A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

Dinah Shore

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

Harry Browne

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

Ellen Key