The law is established from above but becomes custom below.
—Su Zhe, c. 1100
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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, 1815The 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, 1902I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
—Mitch Hedberg, 1999A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
—Fanny Burney, 1782Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640I cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1815Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.
—T. H. Huxley, 1895Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.
—Solomon ibn Gabirol, 1050Don’t hit a man at all if you can avoid it, but if you have to hit him, knock him out.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1916The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
—George Borrow, 1843