Do not yield to misfortunes but advance more boldly to meet them as your fortune permits you.
Virgil
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
Henry Miller
As compared with the college politician the real article seems like an amateur.
Woodrow Wilson
Anything for the quick life as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
Charles Dickens
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
H. L. Mencken
We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.
Samuel Butler
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it as it is the test of our friends and of anything else which we cannot define.
E. M. Forster
The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
Alexis de Tocqueville
I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no even when I need to.
Dolly Parton
