Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
—Don Herold (American Humorist)
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib’d one self place; for where we are is Hell, and where Hell is, there must we ever be.
—Christopher Marlowe (English Playwright)
Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.
—Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) (British Short Story Writer)
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
—Abraham Lincoln (American Head of State)
The strength and safety of a community consist in the virtue and intelligence of its youth, especially of its young men.
—Joel Hawes (American Clergyman)
True courage is cool and calm.—The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.
—Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (English Statesman)
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
—Thomas Henry Huxley (English Biologist)
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true.
—Logan Pearsall Smith (American-British Essayist)
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
—Rainer Maria Rilke (Austrian Poet)