"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do." - Jerome K. Jerome

"There are things which it is not only impossible to discuss intelligently, but which it is not even intelligent to discuss." - Feodor Dostoyevsky

"Fear not that life shall come to an end but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning." - John Henry Cardinal Newman

"The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." - John Milton

"Literary success of any enduring kind is made by refusing to do what the publishers want, by refusing to write what the public wants, by refusing to accept any popular standard, by refusing to write anything to order." - Anonymous

"Human existence is always irrational and often painful, but in the last analysis it remains interesting." - H.L. Mencken

"That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember." - Thomas Fuller