Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man. – William Ralph Inge

Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied. – Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other. – Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution

It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh, 1849