“Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.” — Slovenian proverb

“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.” — Shirley Temple

“At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“If a man should pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found the flower in his hand when he awoke — Ay! and what then?”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Anima Poetæ, 1895

“An ugly baby is a very nasty object — and the prettiest is frightful when undressed — till about four months; in short, as long as they have their big body and little limbs and that terrible frog-like action.” — Queen Victoria to the Princess Royal, May 2, 1859

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” — William James

“There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.” — Denis Diderot

“A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o’clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.” — Lin Yutang