There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. ~George Eliot
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. ~Author Unknown
History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils. ~Jacques Barzun, Clio and the Doctors
Freedom is never given; it is won. ~A. Philip Randolph
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did. ~Malcolm Forbes
Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization we will find the hoofprint of the horse beside it. ~John Moore
I'm so poor I can't even pay attention. ~Ron Kittle
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, 1894
The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value. ~Washington Irving
It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery. ~Edmund Burke
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. ~Aristotle
Sometimes the best man for the job isn't. ~Author Unknown
Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident. ~P.J. O'Rourke
You may be an engineer if your idea of good interpersonal communication means getting the decimal point in the right place. ~Author Unknown
We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in any extended sense), and certainly not revealing to us, how, they came to be afoot on these particular journeys. ~Michael Oakeshott, On History
Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near. ~Helen Rowland Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near. ~Helen Rowland
Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it. ~Albert Smith
It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg. ~J.C. Snead, on his putting
Individual possession is the great entering wedge, which has split society into eight hundred million fragments.... It virtually, practically, and theoretically denies the brotherhood of man. ~Hiram Stafford, The Liberator, 8 September 1844
Some people talk about finding God - as if He could get lost. ~Author Unknown