You will say that these are very small sins; and doubtless, like all young tempters, you are anxious to be able to report spectacular wickedness. But do remember, the only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy. It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

Benjamin Franklin

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

George Bernard Shaw

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

Artemus Ward

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

Alexander Pope

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Alan Alda

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

W. Edwards Deming

In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.

Alan Dundes

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Leo Tolstoy

And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.

Joan Jett

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Information on the Internet is subject to the same rules and regulations as conversation at a bar.

George Lundberg

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence