“Our strife pertains to ourselves—to the passing generations of men—and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

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“love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Men

“To educate the people three things are needed: schools, and schools, and schools.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“But neither do these come within the compass of our mental powers; and it was the duty of philosophy to destroy the illusions which had their origin in misconceptions, whatever darling hopes and valued expectations may be ruined by its explanations.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“Good jobs must be the aim of welfare reform. As we reauthorize these important reforms, we must always remember the goal is to reduce dependency on government and offer every American the dignity of a job.”

― George W. Bush, State of the Union Address

“The idea that we shall die is more cruel than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that someone else is dead”

― Marcel Proust, The Fugitive

“A proposition must be plain to be adopted by the understanding of a people. A false notion which is clear and precise will always meet with a greater number of adherents in the world than a true principle which is obscure or involved.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“You should write a book . . . translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”

― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water

“Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves and another among Men. It is a man’s part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“For books have a way of influencing each other. Fiction will be much the better for standing cheek by jowl with poetry and philosophy.”

― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

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