An abridgement may be a bridge: it may help us over the water: but it keeps us from drinking. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. – Seneca

The enemy of your enemy is your friend. – Proverb

You taught me all about love, all about faith, and then God turned your lessons inside out, let me see the underside of every good thing you gave me. – Margaret Blair Young, Heresies of Nature, 2002