Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.

A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love.

The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise.

Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.

Taste is often one of the aspects of fashion.

The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.

To study history is to study literature.

Taste is improved by cultivation.

The drama is the book of the people.

It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but excess of wickedness.

The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.

There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.

Ty is green but never with envy. Best of all, he's usually available to help move a heavy piece of furniture.

You don’t have to speak at all—I know what you’d say…- Laura

Everybody comes from somewhere.

The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy!

Aptitude starts with attitude.

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.

I'm so proud to bring the title of Miss USA back to Nevada.

The way
 that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform,
 determined to do something