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“Love, the most generous passion of the mind The softest refuge innocence can find”
Source : John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.11, Taylor & Francis
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“To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.”
Source : Karen Horney (2013). “Self-Analysis”, p.36, Routledge
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“Intolerance has been the curse of our country.”
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“There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.”
Source : Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”
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“Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.”
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“Every Observer writer wants to be a novelist.”
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“They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.”
Source : 'Heraclitus'; translation of Callimachus 'Epigram 2' in R. Pfeiffer (ed.) 'Callimachus' (1949-53)
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“What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our rules, and making sure we hold to unity in the Body of Christ.”