"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and , smiles, with sniffles , predominating. "

The Gift of the Magi
O. Henry

"Intellect is not speaking and logicizing; it is seeing and ascertaining"

On Heroes, Hero- Worship,
and the Heroic in History
_Thomas Carlyle

"Though idle people might call it work, working people would call it play. "

The Return of the Native
_Thomas Hardy

"Words are finite organs of the infnite mind."


Nature
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue."


Reflections;
or Sentences and Moral Maxims -François duc de La Rochefoucauld

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. "

Lady Windermere 'S Fan
-Osaa Wilde

"In peace the sons bury their fathers, , but in war the fathers bury their sons. "

The History of Herodotus -Herodotus

"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. "

Nicholas Nickleby
-Charles Dickens

*How much blood and cruelty is the foundation of all good things'!"

The Genealogy of Morals
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Nothing seems more seductive in his eyes than freedom of conscience, and nothing proves more painful."


The Grand Inquisitor
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail "


My Life and Work
-Hennry Ford

"What are the distinctive characteristics, or marks of personality? Knowledge, feeling or emotion, and will. Any entity that thinks and feels and wills is a person."


The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit
-R.A. Torrey

"Let's not borrow trouble,'" said Anne. "The rate of interest is too high."


Anne's House of Dreams
-L.M. Montgomery

" For love is the desire of the whole, and the , pursuit of the whole is called love. "

Symposium
-Plato

"The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found."


The Murders in the Rue Morgue -Edgar Allan Poe