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One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. William Shakespeare
There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will. Albert Einstein
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. Oliver Goldsmith
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
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning. Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action. Alexander Graham Bell
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. George Eliot
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. Homer
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. Ausonius
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. Virginia Woolf
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. Victor Hugo
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought. Pierre Bayle
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health. Thomas Tusser
The small landholders are the most precious part of a state. Thomas Jefferson
Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end. H. P. Lovecraft
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. John Stuart Mill
Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe. Franz Kafka
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever. Daniel Webster
Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches. Swami Vivekananda
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. D. H. Lawrence
The future influences the present just as much as the past. Friedrich Nietzsche
Nature is the antidote to the chaos of modern life.
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight Christopher Marlowe
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble. Rudyard Kipling
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. Theodore Roosevelt
Being single is when you stop searching for replacements and start rebuilding from the inside out.
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. Walt Whitman
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. Friedrich Nietzsche
There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair. Charles Dickens
A dog's gentle gaze holds a universe of understanding, compassion, and unspoken support.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. Victor Hugo
Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert
Spring smells like something beginning.
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. Charles Baudelaire
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. Victor Hugo
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind. H. P. Lovecraft
If you think you’re boring your audience, go slower not faster. Gustav Mahler
I cannot without great astonishment — I might say without great insult to my intelligence — hear it attributed as a prime perfection and nobility of the natural and integral bodies of the universe that they are invariant, immutable, inalterable, etc., while on the other hand it is called a great imperfection to be alterable, generable, mutable, etc. For my part I consider the earth very noble and admirable precisely because of the diverse alterations, changes, generations, etc. that occur in it...

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