Sir Walter Scott

"And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last."

I.vii Macbeth William Shakespeare

"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."

Benjamin Franklin

"Creditors have better memories than debtors."

Logan Pearsall Smith

Graham Greene

Marcel Proust

"Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade."

Robert Ingersoll

"Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself."

William Blake

"Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny."

Ballade of Soporific Absorption Sir J.C. Squire

Henri-Frdric Amiel

"Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."

George Bernard Shaw

Robert W. Service

Albert Einstein

Henry David Thoreau

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."

Isaac Newton

"Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy."

Sir William Osler

"Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things."