Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.

My country, right or wrong is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying My mother, drunk or sober.

G. K. Chesterton

I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

Harriet Tubman

The great decisions of human life usually have far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no universal recipe for living. Each of us carries his own life-form within him--an irrational form which no other can outbid.

Carl Gustav Jung, The Aims of Ps

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Henry David Thoreau

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

Joseph Conrad

Artists walk alone.

Ezra Miller

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

Nelson Mandela

You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.

Cassandra Clare

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Anais Nin, Winter of Artifice, 1

Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth.

Robert B. Laughlin

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

Dame Edith Evans

Courtesy should be a continuous action, not something to be turned on and off like a faucet.

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