The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

Meir Kahane

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Jane Austen

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.

Amanda Heggs

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

A. E. van Vogt

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

George Farquhar

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

Ingrid Bergman

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time.

Elbert Hubbard

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Sir Alfred Jules Ayer

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Louis Auchincloss

Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.

Sydney Smith