Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

My sister's bringing up had made me sensitive. In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter. Within myself, I had sustained, from my babyhood, a perpetual conflict with injustice. I had known, from the time when I could speak, that my sister, in her capricious and violent coercion, was unjust to me. I had cherished a profound conviction that her bringing me up by hand, gave her no right to bring me up by jerks. Through all my punishments, disgraces, fasts and vigils, and other penitential performances, I had nursed this assurance; and to my communing so much with it, in a solitary and unprotected way, I in great part refer the fact that I was morally timid and very sensitive.

Charles Dickens

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

Ellen Glasgow

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

Nick Clooney

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

Edward Hopper

He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.

Kahlil Gibran

The Dodgson family worshipped the God of Love, who showed his stern face only in the presence of evil.

Florence Becker Lennon

On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.

Anthony Daniels

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

John Strachan

O lands! O all so dear to me -- what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.

Walt Whitman

To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.

Albert Einstein

Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.

Luke Ford

Optimist: Day-dreamer in his small clothes

Mark Twain