"I've never aspired to be more than a dreamer. I paid no attention to those who spoke to me of living. I've always belonged to what isn't where I am and to what I could never be."

~Fernando Pessoa

"You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit."

~Demosthenes

"Christ did not come into the world to eliminate suffering. Christ has not come into the world not even to explain it. Rather, He came to fill human suffering with His presence."

~Paul Claudel

"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind."

~Cicero

"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."

~Blaise Pascal

"The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions, but by iron and blood."

~Otto von Bismarck

"Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created."

~Roger Scruton

"The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always been objected to being governed at all."

“I tell you I am sometimes sick of my trade when I see how perpetually it means merely a war upon the ignorant and the desperate...We say that the dangerous criminal is the educated criminal. We say that the most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men; my heart goes out to them." - Police officer

"When duty and religion are really destroyed, it will be the rich."

~G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday

"Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns."

~Thomas Carlyle

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."

~C.S. Lewis

"Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it."

~Saint Augustine of Hippo

"All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established."

~Aristotle