Robert Heinlein

"Love is that condition in wich the happiness of another person is essential to your own"

Robert Heinlein

WHO: Robert Heinlein (1907-1988) was an American science fiction writer borned in Butler (Missouri)

WHERE: This quote comes from Jubal Harshaw in the first edition (1961); the later 1991 "Uncut" edition didn't have this line, because it was one Heinlein had added when he went through and trimmed the originally submitted manuscript on which the "Uncut" edition is based. Heinlein also later used a variant of this in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls where he has Xia quote Harshaw: "Dr. Harshaw says that 'the word "love" designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.'"

WHEN: Robert Heinlein wrote this in 1961.

Benjamin Disraeli

"A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy"

Benjamin Disraeli

WHO:  Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81) Known as a dandy, a novelist, a brilliant debator and England's first and only Jewish prime minister, Disraeli (Earl of Beaconfield) is best remembered for bringing India and the Suez Canal under control of the crown.

WHERE: This quote comes from the Speech in the House of Commons.

WHEN: Benjamin Disraeli said this in 1845 (Mar. 3,).

Oscar Wilde

"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success"

Oscar Wilde

WHO: Oscar Wilde was an Irish dramatist, poet, and author born in 1854 (Dublin). He died at the age of 46 (Paris).

WHERE: This quote comes from The Soul of Man under Socialism. 

WHEN: Oscar Wilde wrote this in 1891. One year after that The Picture of Dorian Gray was published.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

WHO: Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, poet, and philosopher born in 1803. He died at the age of 79.

WHERE: This quote comes from the book Essays (Friendship). 

WHEN: Emerson wrote this in 1841. In January of the next year Emerson's first son Waldo died from scarlet fever. Emerson wrote of his grief in the poem Threnody (For this losing is true dying), and the essay Experience.

Benjamin Franklin

"At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement"

Benjamin Franklin

WHO: Benjamin Franklin was an US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer borned in 1706 (Boston, Massachusetts Bay) and died  in 1790 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).

WHERE: This quote comes from Poor Richard's Almanack. It was a best seller for a pamphlet published in the American colonies.

WHEN: Benjamin Franklin wrote this in 1741.

Author Unknown #2

"A true friend is someone that comes when everyone is leaving, and stays when everyone else is gone."

Author Unknown

Hippocrates

"Healing is a matter of time, but it is some times also matter of opportunity"

Hippocrates

WHO: Hippocrates was a Greek physician called, from the Middle Ages, the Father of Medicine. He was born in 460 a.C (Island of Kos) and died in 377 BC (Tesalia).

WHERE: This quote comes from Precepts - chapter 1.

WHEN:  Precepts was translated by W. H. S. Jones in 1923.