Something inside Clary cracked and broke, and words came pouring out. 'What do you want me to tell you? The truth? The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish he was my brother and you weren't, but I can't do anything about that and neither can you!

Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.

Alice Hamilton

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

The Talmud

If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.

Mignon McLaughlin

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

John Vance Cheney

I like my philosophy smothered in beauty and not the opposite.

Wallace Stevens

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

Plato

I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

Just handle what is in front of you now and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner.

Dan Millman

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

W. Somerset Maugham

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Mahatma Gandhi