In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continually.

Science views the blood-building and character-influencing ur-organism water merely as a chemical compound and provides millions of people with a liquid prepared from this point of view, which is everything but healthy water.

Viktor Schauberger

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

Mark Twain

When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

Mother Theresa

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Thomas Kempis

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence

Samuel Johnson

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Oscar Wilde

Wilson adventured for the whole of the human race. Not as a servant, but as a champion. So pure was this motive, so unfrocked with anything that his worst enemies could find, except the mildest and most excusable, a personal vanity, practically the minimum to be human, that in a sense his adventure is that of humanity itself. In Wilson, the whole of mankind breaks camp, sets out from home and wrestles with the universe and its gods.

William Bolitho

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.

Mark Twain

The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal.

Oliver Goldsmith

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

Bernard Devoto

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

Pierre Bonnard

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Eric Hoffer