Hope deceives more men than cunning does. – Vauvenargues, Reflections and Maxims, 1746 Category: Hope
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. – Alphonse Karr Category: Dreams
Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he cant find you. – Ambrose Bierce Category: Insults
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942 Category: Imagination
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. – Thomas Carlyle Category: History