Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity.
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
-Ambrose Bierce
Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings to become perfect, even as God is perfect. It is necessary for all of us to aspire after that perfection but when that blessed state is attained, it becomes indescribable, indefinable.
In many a form of goodness, O Love, you show your face. Grant that these forms may penetrate within our hearts. Send elsewhere all malice!
There is no end to craving. Hence, contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Stay content.
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
-Marcel Pagnol
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
-H. L. Mencken
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw