“HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“It must be very peaceful, he thought, to lie and slumber and dream forever and ever, with the wind whispering through the trees and caressing the grass and the flowers over the grave, and nothing to bother and grieve about, ever any more.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch...”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“To attain the highth and depth of thy eternal ways all human thoughts come short, Supreme of things!”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Huckleberry came and went, at his own free will. He slept on doorsteps in fine weather and in empty hogsheads in wet; he did not have to go to school or to church, or call any being master or obey anybody; he could go fishing or swimming when and...”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“Oh! the suspense, the fearful, acute suspense, of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance!”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Human reason is by nature architectonic.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“Stupidity is much the same all the world over.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

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