Some defeats [are] more triumphant than victories. – Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1588 Category: Miscellaneous
For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. – Elizabeth Bowen Category: Miscellaneous
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. – Peter Drucker Category: Miscellaneous
Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare. – Christopher Morley Category: Miscellaneous
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying “Amen” to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive. – Robert Louis Stevenson Category: Homosexuality
How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? – John Ruskin Category: best
