Tact is the intelligence of the heart.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

Walter Savage Landor

My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge, or the present aspect of affairs, do I despair of the future. The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.

General Robert E. Lee, letter to

Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

Edward W. Howe

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.

Anne Dudley Bradstreet

The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre. For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe. Therefore the poet is not any permissive potentate, but is emperor in his own right. Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, and disparages such as say and do not, overlooking the fact, that some men, namely, poets, are natural sayers, sent into the world to the end of expression, and confounds them with those whose province is action, but who quit it to imitate the sayers. The poet does not wait for the hero or the sage, but, as they act and think primarily, so he writes primarily what will and must be spoken, reckoning the others, though primaries also, yet, in respect to him, secondaries and servants; as sitters or models in the studio of a painter, or as assistants who bring building materials to an architect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

Giacomo Casanova

A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.

Marvin Kitman

Best way to describe life could be suffering from your past or could just be a moment spend with heart full of satisfaction.

Santosh Kalwar

For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die.

Oscar Wilde

The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

William Blake

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.

Honore de Balzac