"You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read."

“Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.”

“That which is not just is not law.”

Source : William Lloyd Garrison (1971). “A House Dividing Against Itself, 1836-1840”, p.220, Harvard University Press

“White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.”

“A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.”

Source : Hamilton Wright Mabie (1898). “Essays on Work and Culture”

“A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.”

“The desire that we have to do something that’s never been done before means that the people who are around you generally will not encourage you to do it…if they were encouraging you to do it, then other people would be doing it already and it wouldn’t be unique.”

“Live concerts were to train the ears and to introduce, constantly, new musical ideas to the audience so the next time they showed up or the next record they would be ready and receptive.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“What the head makes cloudy the heart makes clear”