quotes of day Wednesday, August 19, 2026

“We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.”

“In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.”

“I said to the night, "If you are in love with the moon, it is because you never stay for long." The night turned to me and said, "It is not my fault. I never see the Sun, how can I know that love is endless?”

“The voice in your head also creates a huge amount of problems that aren't really problems. They're just things that haven't happened yet, things that could happen tomorrow or next week. Listening to unreal problems has another name: worrying. That's what the voice in your head does. It what-ifs. It frets. It agonizes, and you can no longer sense the joy of life.”

“I am happy in my prison of passion”

“... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.”

“There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.”

“Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.”

“Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.”

“Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.”

“Concentrate on the Essence, concentrate on the Light.”

“If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.”

“My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.”