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The law is established from above but becomes custom below.

—Su Zhe, c. 1100

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

—Jane Austen, 1815

The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.

—William James, 1902

I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.

—Mitch Hedberg, 1999

A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.

—Thomas Fuller, 1732

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

—Fanny Burney, 1782

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640

I cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.

—Thomas Jefferson, 1815

Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.

—T. H. Huxley, 1895

Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.

—Solomon ibn Gabirol, 1050

Don’t hit a man at all if you can avoid it, but if you have to hit him, knock him out.

—Theodore Roosevelt, 1916

The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

—George Borrow, 1843