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- Evil to him who evil thinks.
(Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense) - King Edward the Third (1312 - 1377), Motto of the order of the Garter
- Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
- Moliere (1622 - 1673)
- Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.
- Jean Baptiste Montegut
- I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.
- John Keats (1795 - 1821)
- Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
- W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
- For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause for breath,
And love itself have rest. - Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
- Hear the other side.
(Audi Partem Alteram) - Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
- Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As man's ingratitude. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
- Sir Arthur Helps
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