It is with noble sentiments that bad literature ge — André Gide

Old hands soil, it seems, what they caress; but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands are made for caresses and the To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. [ In response to being asked who was the greatest nineteenth-century poet :] Hugo,—hélas!

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. Mark Twain Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Everyone sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are. The Prince Niccolò Machiavelli Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. Groucho Marx Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. Khalil Gibran