Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
-Samuel Butler
Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen for them by their authors.
-Aldous Huxley
Justice resides naturally in people's hearts.
-Chinese proverb
Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?
-Henry David Thoreau
How could passion run so deep
Had I never thought
That the crime of being born
Blackens all our lot?
-William Butler Yeats