Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

In a solitude of the sea Deep from human vanity, And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she.

Thomas Hardy

The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Samuel Johnson

So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled.

Daniel Greenberg

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Edmund Burke

For he loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

Orson Scott Card

I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.

Groucho Marx

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

William S. Burroughs

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.

Olivia Newton-John

When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.

Audre Lorde

The self-taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers;

Mark Twain

You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

John Milton