Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.

—Unknown

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

—Unknown

The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

—Unknown

Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unus'd.

—Unknown

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

—Unknown

Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

—George Ade

If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.

—Fran Lebowitz

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

—Florence Nightingale

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.

—Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

—Elaine Liner