You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

–
Mark Twain

God save us from people who mean well.

–
Vikram Seth

Numbers constitute the only universal language.

–
Nathanael West

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

–
Mark Twain

Lift every voice and sing.

–
James Weldon Johnson

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

–
James Joyce

Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

–
Dante Alighieri

As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.

–
Yasunari Kawabata

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

–
W.B. Yeats

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

–
Djuna Barnes