There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank, than those who have no rank at all.
—William Shenstone (English Poet)
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
—John Keats (English Poet)
When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.
—Aeschylus (Greek Playwright)
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
—Jean de La Fontaine (French Poet)
Both man and womankind belie their nature when they are not kind.
—Gamaliel Bailey (American Journalist)
A good face is a letter of recommendation.
—Common Proverb
What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (American Physician, Essayist)
Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.
—Ayn Rand (Russian-born American Novelist)
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (Roman Poet)
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
—Simone de Beauvoir (French Philosopher)
Seeing is believing, but feeling’s the truth.
—Thomas Fuller (English Cleric, Historian)
Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man’s life.
—Philip Sidney (English Soldier, Poet, Courtier)
The friend that can be bought is not worth having.
—Irish Proverb