“There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

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“I really did think at one time that I was on the verge of becoming a poet, but Providence was kind enough to save me from that disaster.”

― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion;”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“I felt that 15,000 men on the 8th would be more effective than 50,000 a month later.”

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

“Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

“We all have souls of different ages”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“And Credulity, because men love to be hearkened unto in company, disposeth them to lying: so that Ignorance it selfe without Malice, is able to make a man bothe to believe lyes, and tell them; and sometimes also to invent them.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Analogy points in this direction, and though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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