For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. Herman Melville (1819-1891) http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/shPg.aspx?t=q16712

Everybody likes to go their own way—to choose their own time and manner of devotion. Jane Austen (1775-1817) http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/shPg.aspx?t=q16710

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it’s there complete in the mind, if only at the back. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/shPg.aspx?t=q16705

If youth did not matter so much to itself it would never have the heart to go on. Willa Cather (1873-1947) http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/shPg.aspx?t=q16701

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/shPg.aspx?t=q16699

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. Rene Descartes (1596-1650)   http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/shPg.aspx?t=q16687uUY32  

Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth. H.G. Wells (1866-1946)   http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/shPg.aspx?t=q16686uUY32  

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds—not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but—a hatred of all injury. George Eliot (1819-1880) http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/shPg.aspx?t=q16684uUY32      

The page of life that was spread out before me seemed dull and commonplace, only because I had not fathomed its deeper import. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)   http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/shPg.aspx?t=q16680uUY32      

A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other. George Eliot (1819-1880)   http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/shPg.aspx?t=q16679uUY32

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.   http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/shPg.aspx?t=q16673uUY32

Man is by nature a political animal.   http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/shPg.aspx?t=q16676uUY32