"When you take the bull by the horns...what happens is a toss-up."

“Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis,”

“The earth continues to go round, whether it's the man who kills the tiger or the tiger who eats the man. The stronger asserts his will, it's the law of nature. The world doesn't change; its laws are eternal.”

“A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.”

“Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows he's wrong.”

“Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy.”

“The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.”

“I plan to eliminate the equity cap in investment, and I also plan large-scale deregulation to meet global standards.”

“I have often noticed that spoiled, petted children, usually have very little love for their parents, or indeed for any one but themselves.”

Source : Martha Finley (1867). “Elsie Dinsmore”, p.304