All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck — who keeps right on going — is the man who is there when the good luck comes — and is ready to receive it. – Robert Collier
Ever since the arrival of printing – thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into peoples minds – people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language. – David Crystal
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. – George Bernard Shaw
This is the Hour of Lead — Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow — First –Chill –then Stupor –then the letting go –. – Emily Dickinson
Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicate nothing but the changeableness of the weather. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
