March 29, 2007

Richard le Gallienne

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Great is advertisement! 'Tis almost fate; But, little mushroom-men, of puff-ball fame. Ah, do you dream to be mistaken great. And to be really great are just the same?
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February 23, 2007

Edgar Allan Poe

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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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February 10, 2007

Hans Christian Andersen

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.
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February 5, 2007

John Quincy Adams

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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
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January 8, 2007

P. G. Wodehouse

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It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
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December 27, 2006

Thomas Hardy

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Pessimism...is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
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December 14, 2006

Louisa May Alcott

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She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
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December 10, 2006

Arthur Conan Doyle

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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
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December 5, 2006

Honore de Balzac

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Modesty is the conscience of the body.
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December 3, 2006

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
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