Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
John Keats
The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving, it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.
Franz Kafka
The sword outwears its sheath and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe and love itself have rest.
Lord Byron
There are three kinds of lies: lies damned lies and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
H. L. Mencken
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
Marcel Proust
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot
