Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him. (Horace)
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. (Washington Irving)
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. (Samuel Johnson)
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. (Anthony Brandt)
Be and not seem. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness. (Publius Cornelius Tacitus)
Believe nothing against another but on good authority and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it. (William Penn)
Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow. (Andrew Schneider)
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. (Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky)
Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else (Alex Noble)
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. (Julie Arabi)
It's a dangerous business going out your front door. (J. R. R. Tolkien)
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. (Ambrose Gwinett Bierce)
What a crazy world we live in Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal misbehaviors using guns as a medical problem Beam me up, Scotty. Ain't no intelligent life down here. (Julie Cochrane)
It citizenship would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other state whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, andwithout obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of the law for which a white man would be punished it citizenship would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went. And all this would be done in the face of the subject race of the same color, both free and slaves, inevitably producing discontent and insubordination among them, and endangering the peace and safety of the State. (Roger B. Taney)
To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. (W. Somerset Maugham)
I believe in the incomprehensibility of God. (Honore' de Balzac)
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology. (James A. Garfield)
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. (Miyamoto Musashi)