Extras Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Hephaistion had known for many ages that if a god should offer him one gift in all his lifetime, he would choose this. Joy…

— Mary Renault

The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become…

— Plato

The force of his own merit makes his way-a gift that heaven gives for him.

— William Shakespeare

“But he that honours a reasonable soul in general, as it is reasonable and naturally sociable, doth little regard anything else: and above all…

— Marcus Aurelius

“everyone knows what He’s thinking when He retires to His bed at night: that one of His best gifts—the ability to have faith in…

— David Eagleman

He was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God may well be…

— Thomas Keneally

For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.

— Aeschylus

He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.

— Benjamin Whichcote

“A noble and Godlike character is not a thing of favour or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking,…

— James Allen

... God cometh sometimes unto the soul when it hath neither called, nor prayed unto, nor summoned Him. And He doth instil into the…

— Angela of Foligno

To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Indeed, on the face of it, this man of abnormal strength and constitution and obscure ambition, whom Hugh would never know, could never deliver…

— Malcolm Lowry