George Eliot

"What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."

- George Eliot, "Middlemarch"

George Eliot

"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."

- George Eliot, author

Mark Twain

"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more."

- Mark Twain, author

Jules Renard

"Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none."

- Jules Renard, author

Khalil Gibran

"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose."

- Khalil Gibran, artist, poet, writer

Oscar Wilde

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

George Eliot

"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories."

- George Eliot, author

Khalil Gibran

"The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain."

- Khalil Gibran, artist, poet, writer

George Santayana

"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."

- George Santayana, philosopher, poet, author

Mark Twain

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

- Mark Twain, author

Chuck Palahniuk

"Which is worse: Hell or nothing?"

- Chuck Palahniuk, journalist, satirist and novelist

Lord Acton

"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern."

- Lord Acton, historian, politician and author

Jules Renard

"Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it."

- Jules Renard, author

Oscar Wilde

“No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.”

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Anatole France

"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."

- Anatole France, poet, journalist, novelist

James Thurber

"Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority."

- James Thurber, cartoonist, humourist, author

Hunter S. Thompson

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."

- Hunter S. Thompson, journalist and author

Rudyard Kipling

"Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade."

- Rudyard Kipling, poet and author

Victoria Holt

"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."

- Victoria Holt, pen name of Eleanor Hibbert, author

Khalil Gibran

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

- Khalil Gibran, artist, poet, writer