When you suffer, think not on how you can escape suffering, but concentrate your efforts on what kind of inner moral and spiritual perfection this suffering requires.

Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.

Benjamin Franklin

It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it

Henry David Thoreau

I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals, food fantasies, nocturnal emissions, hobbies, choice of radio program, changes in out look and so forth.

Vladimir Nabokov

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage -- but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

Samuel Butler

There's lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, it's an inspiring rally point.

Ty Burrell

Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, sure the most bitter is a scornful jest

Samuel Johnson

To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

John Stuart Mill

Never try to impress people with the profundity of your thought by the obscurity of your language. Whatever has been thoroughly thought through can be stated simply.

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Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.

Maria Montessori

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge