A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897
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Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.
—Lawrence Durrell, 1957Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
—Xunzi, 250 BCIf the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham LincolnWhat a man does abroad by night requires and implies more deliberate energy than what he is encouraged to do in the sunshine.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1892Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.
—Jeremy Bentham, c. 1832To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.
—Eugenia Sheppard, 1960