“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”

― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

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“Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out of the window.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“I learned a little of beauty—enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Good government should maintain the balance where every individual may have a place if he will take it, where every individual may find safety if he wishes it, where every individual may attain such power as his ability permits, consistent with...”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Looking Forward

“But an infinity of passions may be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a small space.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“For prison life with its endless privations and restrictions makes one rebellious. The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.”

― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace.”

― 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Lecture

“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry V

“Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt, since riches point to misery and contempt?”

― William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

“My mind . . . rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four

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