I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.
—Henry James (American-born British Novelist)
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
—A. C. Benson (English Essayist)
When I’m not thank’d at all, I’m thank’d enough. I’ve done my duty, and I’ve done no more.
—Henry Fielding (English Novelist)
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
—Robert Brault
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
—Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect)
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover you have wings.
—Helen Hayes (American Actor)
Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Russian Novelist)
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason and imagination, rarely or never.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English Poet)
Often do the spirits of great events stride on before the events, and in today already walks tomorrow.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English Poet)
Age is not important unless you’re a cheese.
—Helen Hayes (American Actor)
Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
—Lowell Thomas (American Writer)
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.
—John Lennon (British Singer)