All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.

John Nelson Darby

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

B. K. Sandwell

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Edward Abbey

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Aldous Huxley

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds -- not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but -- a hatred of all injury.

George Eliot

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.

George Eliot

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Robert Benchley

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

George Bernard Shaw

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

James Taylor

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

Tori Amos