If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Jane Austen

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Angela Carter

I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards -- When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.

Anthony Trollope

Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

Henry Ward Beecher

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother

Voltaire

Maybe you are the 'cool' generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

Martha Beck

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

St Vincent De Paul

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Don't gag people with welfare, they'll never make an effort.

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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate the mere outward of things and feel pity, what pity can be given save that of scorn?

Oscar Wilde