"My honor is dearer to me than my life."

-- Miguel de Cervantes

“Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.”
“We had to play the hand we were dealt, all of us. Fighting the battles we could win.”
“Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on.”
“Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.”
“I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.”
“In friendship similarity of character has more weight than kinship.”
“It is true, says Liebeg, that thousands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily experience teaches us that, under certain circumstances, they may be dispensed with without disadvantage to the merely animal functions, but it is an error, certainly, to conclude from this that they may be altogether dispensed with in reference to their effects; and It is a question whether, if we had no tea and no coffee, the popular instinct would not seek for and discover the means of replacing them.”

Source : Isabella Beeton (2006). “Mrs Beeton's Household Management”, p.825, Wordsworth Editions
“In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.”

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