32 quotes found
“That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.”
“What a glut of books! Who can read them?”
“I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva’s tower...I live still a collegiate student...and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi ...”
“[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.”
“Then Cynthia looked at him and smiled, and he knew he couldn’t possibly resist her, no matter what she had done. It felt as though the two of them had just stripped naked and dived off a high cliff...”
“These mega-churches are springing up all over the country—especially in the suburbs of large cities. And they all follow the same formula: A charismatic, self-anointed pastor starts a church by hol...”
“They are proud in humility proud that they are not proud.”
“If the world will be gulled let it be gulled.”
“Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.”
“No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw or hold so fast as love can do with a twined thread.”
“Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.”
“To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature.”
