To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied. – Henri-Frédéric Amiel Category: Miscellaneous
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. – Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyper Reality, 1986 Category: Miscellaneous
If a man could have just half of his wishes, he would double his troubles. – Benjamin Franklin Category: Miscellaneous
We look for some reward of our endeavours and are disappointed; not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Pulvis et umbra,” 1888 Category: Miscellaneous
Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith. – Vera Farmiga Category: Faith
You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. – Benjamin Disraeli Category: Parliament