The spirit of man can endure only so much, and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
John Burroughs
You are that vast thing that you see far far off with great telescopes.
Alan Watts
Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Poor nations are hungry and rich nations are proud, and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Jonathan Swift
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
William Hazlitt
As every divided kingdom falls so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Leonardo da Vinci
Wherever there is danger there lurks opportunity, whenever there is opportunity there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Earl Nightingale
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love, but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.
Ray Bradbury
