“I'm not to be imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.”

― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

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“Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang; Ye were not made to live like unto brutes, But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

“Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

“The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

“Nevertheless, so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration...”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

“How dare the plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment?”

― William Shakespeare, Pericles

“They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They’ve never seen a battle, they’ve never seen a man die, they know nothing. Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut...”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.”

― Confucius, Analects

“Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them—especially as against the rivals, other children, and first and foremost as against their brothers and sisters.”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

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