A Roman came to Rabbi Gimzo the Water Carrier, and asked, What is this study of the law that you Jews engage in? and Gimzo replied, I shall explain. There were two men on a roof, and they climbed down...
How small he was and how wormy in manner,
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
MOST NATIONS HAVE AT ONE TIME OR OTHER BOTH condoned and practiced slavery. Greece and Rome founded their societies on it. India and Japan handled this state of affairs by creating untouchable classes...
CATHOLIC: Let me understand what you’re saying, Mrs. Paxmore. You believe that on some day to come, the religious leaders of this world are going to convene and state that what the Bible has condoned...
The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
Why is it, Reverend Hale, that we must always laugh at our book, but always revere yours?
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There is only one sensible way to think of the Pacific Ocean today. It is the highway between Asia and America, and whether we with it or not, from now on there will be immense traffic along that high...
Jan had never seen a really sumptuous establishment like Lancut, but he had worked often at Castle Gorka and could see the vast difference between how a count lived, with his fifty horses and forty se...
Human affairs are not so happily arranged that the best things please the most men. It is the proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
We are never prepared for what we expect.
In these centuries when God,...was forging a Christian church so that it might fulfill the longing of a hungry world, He was at the same time perfecting His first religion, Judaism, so that it might s...
He found that love is never to be defined, that it grows and changes with every year of life, that each person knows it as a different miracle... Nothing can shame it. Nothing can make it more splendi...
From the time that money began to be regarded with honor, the real value of things was forgotten.
Wherever a human being goes, there is a challenge. Be the best man you can, and your gods will look with favor upon you.
A word once written will often accidentally find a life that no one anticipates; it lies
This is not a promise, this is not threat, it's just the way it's gonna be!!!
Only a mind steeped in true love can write irony. The others write satire.
Maybe books are best, because you don't have to have money to read... A man can travel all over the world and come back the same kind of fool he was when he started. You can't do that with books.