Favorite Quotes

"Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought." - Oliphant

 

"Great minds have purposes; others have wishes." - Irving

 

"Curiosity is the lust of the mind." - Hobbes

 

"Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner." - Blair

 

"The ocean is a mighty harmonist." - Wordsworth

 

"Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire." - Nicolson

 

"For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation." - Baudelaire

 

"Rules and models destroy genius and art." - Hazlitt

 

"Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart." - Clay

 

"The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world." - Heaney

 

"We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains." - Sullivan

 

"From its brilliancy everything is illuminated." - Nanak

 

"Learning never exhausts the mind." - da Vinci