and just a few more:

From letter 130 in Choderlos de Laclos' Les Liaisons Dangereuses:
– A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.

From Nol Cock's commonplace book:
– Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort, of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weight thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away. – Dinah Maria Craik

Thought du jour from the Globe and Mail, some jour or other:
– The particular charm of marriage is the duologue, the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record. It is this back–chat which, in the long run, makes a reciprocal equality more intoxicating than any form of servitude or domination. – English critic Cyril Connolly

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he's given the freedom to starve anywhere. – S. J. Perelman

From the Brobdingnag section of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels:
– He said, he knew no reason, why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged to change, or should not be obliged to conceal them. And as it was tyranny in any government to require the first, so it was weakness not to enforce the second: for, a man may be allowed to keep poisons in his closet, but not to vend them about as cordials.

Permission
It is okay to try something you don't know.
It is okay to make mistakes.
It is okay to find your own pace.
It is okay to do it your own way.
It is okay to bungle – so next time you are free of the fear of failure enough to succeed.
It is okay to risk looking foolish.
It is okay to be original and different.
It is okay to wait until you feel ready.
It is okay to experiment – safely.
It is okay to question the "Shoulds."
It is special to be you.
It is necessary to make a "mess," which you should be willing to clean up.
The act of creation is often messy.

When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it. Always. – Gandhi, quoted in the Richard Attenborough movie about his life

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person. – Margaret Andersen

From Volume III of Jane Austen's juvenilia:
– "The welfare of every nation depends upon the virtue of its individuals, and anyone who offends in so gross a manner against decorum and propriety is certainly hastening its ruin. You have been giving a bad example to the world, and the world is but too well disposed to receive such."