Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.
—Book of Samuel, c. 550 BC
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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar, and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
—Olive Schreiner, 1883He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue.
—Margot Asquith, 1922The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. We go on a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences—to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others.
—William Hazlitt, 1822The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
—Cicero, 44 BCOpposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
—George Eliot, 1857One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
—Iris Murdoch, 1978I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595An American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840