Charles

“Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Avoid being scornful, both to others and to yourself. What seems to you bad within you will grow purer from the very fact of your observing it in yourself.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The absurdity called Germany shall correct the insanity called France”
― G.K. Chesterton

“No one is truly cosmopolitan who knows nothing of the world beyond the confines of his own generation. To live the life of today in its fulness, one must know the life of yesterday.”
― John Grier Hibben

“But he who loves God has no need of tears, no need of admiration, in his love he forgets his suffering, yea, so completely has he forgotten it that afterwards there would not even be the least inkling of his pain if God Himself did not recall it, for God sees in secret and knows the distress and counts the tears and forgets
nothing”
― Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling