Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

-- Jane Austen

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

-- Alexandre Dumas

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

-- Virginia Woolf

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

-- Herman Melville

This world, I think of it as my own, like the full moon lacking nothing at all.

-- Murasaki Shikibu

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.

-- Franz Kafka