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I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell you see, I have friends in both places. Mark Twain
The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side. Theodore Roosevelt
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. Friedrich Nietzsche
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. Rainer Maria Rilke
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. George Eliot
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. Arthur Conan Doyle
The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it. John Donne
I like trying to get pregnant. I’m not so sure about childbirth. George Eliot
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. Mahatma Gandhi
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. Oscar Wilde
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Abraham Lincoln
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. Henry David Thoreau
I am not bound to please thee with my answer. William Shakespeare
Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. Mark Twain
In nature's presence, we are reminded of our interconnectedness with all living beings and the Earth itself.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. Miguel de Cervantes
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. Albert Einstein
Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams. Henry David Thoreau
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation. Cicero
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. Claude Debussy
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? William Shakespeare
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike. Alfred North Whitehead
Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country’s cause. Homer
The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A symphony is no joke. Johannes Brahms
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. Franz Kafka
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. Thomas Jefferson
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst. Arthur Conan Doyle
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. Thomas Henry Huxley
Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged – the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation. F. Scott Fitzgerald
The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself. Friedrich Schiller
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. George Eliot
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live. Victor Hugo
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. Sigmund Freud
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. Marcel Proust
Space is to place as eternity is to time. Joseph Joubert
The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good. Martin Luther
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. Ellen Key
Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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