The revenge of a guilty woman is implacable.

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Imam Hussain's sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of rightousness.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor.

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us

I buried my face against his neck, breathing him in - the smell of machine oil, summertime, a thousand memories

Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.

Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning.

Whatever one may say about the perils of workshops, they help writers internalize an awareness of audience.

Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution.

Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.

That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind.