Nothing is more beautiful than a beautiful book. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1 Category: Books
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. – Walter Pater Category: Books
God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. – W.E. Channing Category: Books
There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts. – Bertrand Russell Category: Earth
Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down youd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown. – Thomas Hardy Category: War
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. – Joseph Ratzinger Category: Society
