It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself who care little for his pursuits and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
Nathaniel HawthorneThere is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it and fills it with noble inclinations.
Washington IrvingThose who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Alexander HamiltonArrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
Friedrich NietzscheImagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions of real interests and materials is indirect, because the crowd is never conscious of it.
Simone WeilThe last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
T. S. EliotSin is geographical.
Bertrand RussellIt is only in sorrow bad weather masters us, in joy we face the storm and defy it.
Amelia BarrThe fundamental concept in social science is Power in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Bertrand RussellThe Divine Will operating through the force of love does all this. For example though there are thousands gathered here absolute silence prevails. Under what compulsion? Only the compulsion of love. In other places where a hundred people collect a hundred and fifty constables are present to keep them quiet.
Sai Baba