Edith Wharton

“True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision”. –Edith Wharton

Richard Crashaw

“Life that dares send A challenge to his end, And when it comes, say, Welcome, friend!” — Richard Crashaw

Nahum Tate

“For sorrow is our joy, And joy our greatest sorrow. Elissa dies tonight, And Carthage flames tomorrow”. –Nahum Tate

Paul Valéry

“Politics is the art of stopping people from minding their own business”. –Paul Valéry

Frederick Rolfe

“Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties — French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time”. –Frederick Rolfe

Charles Lamb

“Credulity is the man’s weakness, but the child’s strength”. –Charles Lamb

Johnny Cash

“I love the freedoms we got in this country. I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine”. –Johnny Cash

Federico García Lorca

“As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die”. –Federico García Lorca

Charles Dibdin

“For a soldier I listed, to grow great in fame. And be shot at for sixpence a day”. –Charles Dibdin

John Heywood

“When all candels be out, all cats be grey”. –John Heywood

William Arthur Ward

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails”. –William Arthur Ward

Stig Dagerman

“I come to understand what purity is: it means to feel something so wholeheartedly that it shrivels up all doubts, all cowardice and all considerations within one”. –Stig Dagerman