Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

People are afraid of what exist in the dark and thats only truth

There are many things in this unhappy world we cannot alter. We must learn to live with our lot and find peace with ourselves.

Ronan cupped her neck with his other hand and brushed his lips lightly over hers. "I want you, Maddy. I want you more than I've ever wanted any woman in my life.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

There is in Ammiel Alcalay’s work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different.

We tend to feel most comfortable, "most at home", with people whose self esteem level resembles our own.

Polygons are fashionable at the moment - particularly in the arcades.