The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
Stendhal
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged, no harm can be done.
Jane Austen
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
John Burroughs
I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.
Henry Rollins
This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system turning large insurers into de facto public utilities depriving people of choice depriving people of options raising people's prices raising taxes when we need new jobs.
Paul Ryan
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
Theodor W. Adorno
Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal, it will always be ahead of you.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Weakness on both sides is as we know the motto of all quarrels.
Voltaire
Liberals seem to assume that if you don't believe in their particular political solutions then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
Thomas Sowell
