Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Jane Austen

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
Jane Austen

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
Jane Austen

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.
Rush Limbaugh

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
Pope John Paul II

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
Pope John Paul II

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
William Blake

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
William Blake

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
Robert Kennedy

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.
John Calvin

There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.
John Calvin

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
Marcus Aurelius

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.
Marcus Aurelius

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Stephen Hawking