I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. – William Hazlitt
I see it all perfectly: there are two possibilities, one can either do this or do that. My honest opinion and friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it, you will regret both. – Søren Kierkegaard
Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else. – Herbert Butterfield, Christianity and History
We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are. – Henry A. Kissinger
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. – Edgar Allan Poe
