One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
Contributed by: Zaady
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up to their labors.
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Source: Literary Studies