Charles

“An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old”
― G.K. Chesterton

“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

“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

“An unimaginative people are proverbially unprogressive. They are satisfied with the present because they see no future. "Where there is no vision the people perish".”
― John Grier Hibben, A Defence of Prejudice, and Other Essays