Agatha grimaced. The last thing they needed was this world…

That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help…

— Plato

In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running…

— Khaled Hosseini

The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.

— Ayn Rand

Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule chairs; in…

— Washington Irving

Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at…

— Virginia Woolf

In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members…

— Ralph Adams Cram

I do now most heartily desire to live but to exalt Jesus; to live preaching and to die preaching; to preach to perishing sinners…

— Henry Grattan Guinness

Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the…

— Marcus Aurelius

Go on, dear brother; but an inch of time remains, and then eternal ages roll on for ever--but an inch on which we can…

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Take heed to yourselves, lest you perish while you call upon others to take heed of perishing, and lest you famish yourselves while you…

— Richard Baxter

God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on…

— R. C. Sproul

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning…

— Richard Chenevix Trench

I am constantly astonished by the people, otherwise intelligent, who think that anything so complex and delicate as a marriage can be left to…

— Robertson Davies