We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. - Gore Vidal

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue. - Confucius

: I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

-- "Wuthering Heights", Emily Bronte

Whatever pain I feel now is just the echo of happiness I felt before. That's the deal. - C. S. Lewis

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

- Abraham Lincoln's speech to Illinois legislature; January, 1837

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. - C.S. Lewis

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a million pieces, and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies.

-- "Peter Pan", J. M. Barrie

When you look closely it is a question whether that which is a wrong to the present community may not prove to have been a right to the interests of posterity. That sounds a little foggy; but I will make my meaning more clear when I say that I think right and wrong are both tools which are being wielded by those great hands which are shaping the destinies of the universe, that both are making for improvement; but that the action of the one is immediate, and that of the other more slow, but none the less certain. Our own distinction of right and wrong is founded too much upon the immediate convenience of the community, and does not inquire sufficiently deeply into the ultimate effect.

-- "The Stark Munro Letters", Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

-- "How to Become Extinct", Will Cuppy