Quote by Emily Eden

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and…

— Hannah More

“Trifles cannot satisfy our longings. Sensual pleasures, power over our fellow man, the acquisition of things, these are babbles, toys, trifles. Our spirits yearn…

— Vaughn Heppner

There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our assistance; and,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Mankind twist and turn the rules of the Lord, to suit their own wickedness, when their devilish cunning has had too much time to…

— James Fenimore Cooper

“Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.”

— George MacDonald

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“The cruelty of this world casts a spell on the innocents, and together we will punish those who do not know the beauty that…

— Casey Hill

“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants…

— John Piper

“The deep darkness of good-natured humans, which causes the noble things of humanity to spoil—the affection for a worn-out, grimy lifestyle, the quarrels between…

— Sakyo Komatsu

“Folly, error, sin, avarice Occupy our minds and labor our bodies, And we feed our pleasant remorse As beggars nourish their vermin.”

— Charles Baudelaire

Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating — real in a generation of triflers — true amongst a multitude…

— William Morley Punshon

“there was less of the peevish temper of a child which frets and teases on purpose to be soothed, and more of the self-absorbed…

— Emily Bronte