It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures

Oscar Wilde

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Victor Hugo

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

Sir John Davies

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

Timothy Spall

The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the humble.

Eli Cass

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Georges Bernanos

A verb has a hard enough time of it in this world when it is all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it a way over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.

Mark Twain

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

Arthur Holly Compton

I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Socrates

Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

Virgil Thomson

We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body. Many times in our lives we see our dreams shattered and our desires frustrated, but we have to continue dreaming. If we don't, our soul dies, and agape cannot reach it.

Paulo Coelho

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Helen Keller