Benefits Quote by Anonymous

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our…

— Michel de Montaigne

A writer just speaks from his heart, mind and soul. They are the conscience keepers of the society. They are the keepers of the…

— Gulzar

We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what otherwise is…

— Mac Barnett

It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the…

— Hosea Ballou

Writers need their totems, their altars. Mine, I feel, share the same randomness and utility of those belonging to painters I know, who are…

— Kevin Young

“God, Himself, wrote the 10 into stone with his own finger. He told the epic of mankind, our origins and our future, in a…

— Gerard de Marigny

“As good heirs of the Bible, we think that a great misfortune necessarily follows a great infraction. In this respect the intellectual caste, in…

— Pascal Bruckner

Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

One might feel indignant at the injustice which deals out what is called fame with so unequal a hand, were it not for the…

— George Stillman Hillard

“People like these have done more to relieve human misery than any prophet with a manifesto ever will. They number in the millions, these…

— Kage Baker

“I should be the last to deny that the lordly prelates serve their own ambition and avarice before anything else; the higher their rank…

— Hella S. Haasse

How many of us, who are engaged in the Lord's holy service, are secretly cherishing some proud purpose of excelling other men, of making…

— F.B. Meyer