Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864
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The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890If you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.
—John Ruskin, 1865Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
—Alexander Pope, 1709The oldest voice in the world is the wind.
—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950Fire destroys that which feeds it.
—Simone Weil, c. 1940Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1921A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
—Jane Austen, 1814The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCWho draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.
—James Howell, 1659When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbIt is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.
—Dragging Canoe, 1775