With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
- Abraham Lincoln
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
- George William Curtis
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
Pray, to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
- Ambrose Bierce
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
- Cicero
The Lord is close to those whose hearts are breaking.
- Bible
Why should the devil have all the good tunes?
- Rowland Hill
Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong.
- John Dryden
Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
- Tom Stoppard
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; the hardest victory is the victory over self.
- Aristotle
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters - not so much above the clatter as part of it.
- Saul Bellow
Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one . . . and got hit by a bus.- Bob Rubin
April, Comes like an idiot, babbling, and strewing flowers.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.
- Lewis Thomas
All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know; and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture.- William Hazlitt
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
- Theodore Roethke
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
- Corrie ten Boom
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller