It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge.

Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum qtd. in Halter)

It is human to err but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

Soprano basso even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.

I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes.

Why waste your life working for a few shillings a week in a scullery, eighteen hours a day, when a woman could earn a decent wage by selling her body instead?

The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life.

Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.

There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.