3 December 2020 Gilbert Highet A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
3 December 2020 Karl Rove Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.
3 December 2020 Euripides Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
3 December 2020 Alfred Jarry It is conventional to call ‘monster’ any blending of dissonant elements. I call ‘monster’ every original inexhaustible beauty.
3 December 2020 Lev Grossman And I’m not as young as I once was. At my age, I don’t have time to be bored.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
3 December 2020 Mohsen Makhmalbaf From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don’t think one can find any other time in one’s life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that.
3 December 2020 Mika Brzezinski The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family’s relationship with each other.
3 December 2020 Cat Stevens I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.
3 December 2020 Robert Frost Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation that is what I call good company.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
3 December 2020 George Eliot Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
3 December 2020 Mary Grandpre I will be sad. I’ve gotten very attached to Harry and all that goes on in his world, I guess I’ll just be kind of tasting every bit of it because it will be the last one.
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
3 December 2020 Hermann Hesse The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
3 December 2020 Thornton Wilder Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
