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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve. Veda, Rig
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Gibbon, Edward
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. Scott, Sir Walter
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider…The riders contend for its possession. Luther, Martin
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. Ellis, Havelock
The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One’s stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death. Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. Hugo, Victor
There ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexibl eof passions. Hume, David
The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen. Colette
The worst part of having success is to try finding someone who is happy for you. Midler, Bette
The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze. Buddha
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. Hawthorne, Nathaniel
