“Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

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“Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass-conflicts of which till then there was record.”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.”

― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

“Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“women can always put things in fewest words.—Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

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