Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
From Thomas Hardy
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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