Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.Bartlett's 15th edition notes This is considered the most important definition of the relation of grace to free will in the Middle Ages.

Saint Augustine of Hippo, De Lib

There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.

Victor Hugo

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

G. K. Chesterton

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Alfred North Whitehead

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Edmund Burke

When you are down and out something always turns up -- and it is usually the noses of your friends.

Orson Welles

If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.

Adam Carolla

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Sir Thomas Browne

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

Anne Tyler

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

Miguel de Cervantes