Some More Favorites

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
~~Thomas Hardy, English writer ~~

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
~~Walt Whitman, U.S. poet ~~

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
~~Lady Mary Wortley, English writer ~~

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
~~Margaret Fuller, U.S. writer ~~

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
~~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer ~~

Top of Page