Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise it costs nothing.
Edmund Burke
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions, concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
Blaise Pascal
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Albert Einstein
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
Gustave Flaubert
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
Margaret Mead
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis
