“We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

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“We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“All have their worth . . . and each contributes to the worth of the others.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

“But, above all, it will confer an inestimable benefit on morality and religion, by showing that all the objections urged against them may be silenced for ever by the Socratic method, that is to say, by proving the ignorance of the objector.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Of all the train none escaped except Wamba, who showed upon the occasion much more courage than those who pretended to greater sense.”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.”

― Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

“When I'm with artists I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful, and then I go out into the streets and the first child I meet with its poor, hungry,...”

― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

“Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.”

― William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost

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