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“Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.” Vladimir Nabokov
“Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.” Cicero
“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.” Pearl S. Buck
“To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.” John Burroughs
“To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.” W. E. B. Du Bois
“Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.” Herodotus
“Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.” Vladimir Nabokov
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” Samuel Johnson
“He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.” Cicero
“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.” Pearl S. Buck
“I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.” John Burroughs
“It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.” W. E. B. Du Bois
“This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.” Herodotus
“All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.” Vladimir Nabokov
“Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.” Samuel Johnson
