"Of all paths a man could strike into there is at any given moment a best path which here and now it were of all things wisest for him to do. To find this path and walk in it is the one thing needful for him."
Thomas Carlyle
Alexander Pope
"No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has the strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will."
La Rochefoucauld
"Teaching does allow me to keep one foot in the youthful waters I tend to occupy in my novels, so I'm thankful for that. My students also remind me on a daily basis that the stories I collected during my district attorney days are actually interesting to people who haven't had that experience."
Alafair Burke
"If the sun never set, we would have no perception of the vast depths of space, which become visible only at night when we are able to see what is obscured by the bright daylight."
William Keepin
"You ought to forgive."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought."
H. Rider Haggard
"I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts."
Dan Brown
"I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength."
Kahlil Gibran
"Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin."
Eric Clapton
"... The best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud."
Anonymous
"A talent is no talent, unless it is used for the benefit of other people."
Bryant McGill
"Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat."
Maureen Johnson
"An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence."
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