So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means

of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
William Morris

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Andrew Jackson

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
Jean de La Fontaine

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
Maurice Maeterlinck

You didn't eat some days for two days you didn't eat properly.
Chingy

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
Iris Murdoch

This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.