Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. H. G. Wells, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914)
English author, historian, & utopian (1866 - 1946) Does it really matter what these affectionate people do-- so long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses! Mrs. Patrick Campbell It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. Edmund Burke
Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 - 1797) Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. Samuel Johnson
English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) No human thing is of serious importance. Plato
Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. Samuel Johnson
English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. Ralph Waldo Emerson
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent. Aldous Huxley
English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963) One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. Henry David Thoreau
US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) | 
