We call some books immortal! Do they live? If so, believe me, Time hath made them pure. In Books, the veriest wicked rest in peace.

Don Chaucer. well of English undefyled On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.

Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.

When two men share an umbrella, both of them get wet.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.

Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire.

Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. -Elie Weisel.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind. And, while they captivate, inform the mind.

Let them learn first to show pity at home.

He serves his party best who serves the country best.

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.

The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception.

He that fights and runs away will live to fight another day.

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every serious crisis is invariably wrong.

When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.