“We were closely pinched to bring our wants within our means; but the jail stood over the way, and I had a wholesome dread of the consequences of running in debt.”

― Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom

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“if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”

― Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

“But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“Ah, does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

“The trouble with the theory is that government is not a machine, but a living thing.”

― Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom

“Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

“There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Thieves for their robbery have authority when judges steal themselves.”

― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! —I have as much soul as you,—and full as much heart!”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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