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“Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.”
Source : Aphra Behn (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)”, p.1065, Delphi Classics
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“You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.”
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“The children's lessons should provide material for their mental growth, should exercise the several powers of their minds, should furnish them with fruitful ideas, and should afford them knowledge, really valuable for its own sake, accurate, and interesting, of the kind that the child may recall as a man with profit and pleasure.”
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“Remember that Abraham Lincoln was a Whig far longer than he was a Republican. As a whole, the Whigs looked upon banks and corporations as a more efficient means of development; the Jacksonian Democrats thought they were the tools of the devil, but Whigs like Lincoln disagreed. During his presidency, Lincoln favored the re-construction of a national financial system, and his most important 'internal improvement' project was the Pacific railroad.”
Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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“Don't ever be afraid to live. Because though dying is easy when compared to living”
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“It is said that life is too short, and that’s quite true, unless you are lonely. Loneliness can bring time to its knees; an absolute and utter standstill.”
Source : Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books
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“The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak with proper diction and come off as educated that it's not black and that it's actually anti-black and should be considered only something that white people would do.”
Source : "Chance the Rapper remembers 'talking white' and fighting black on Acid rap" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. May 14, 2013. 
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“You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.”
