QUOTATIONS

"Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper." Saint Francis de Sales.

 "You shall love your crooked neighbor/With your crooked heart."  W.H. Auden.

"We are not with Thee, but with him." Fyodor Dostoevsky. “The Brothers Karamazov.”  

 “I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." John Adams.

 “These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.” Anton Chekhov writing of the Russian peasants.

With an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use. Samuel Johnson.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt. John Adams.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. Rudyard Kipling.

Let us not speak of them, but look, and pass on. Dante Alighieri. The Inferno from The Divine Comedy.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. Will Durant.

It is true, we shall be monsters. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus.