Adam Cuninghame

“One comes into this world, to enjoy what is beautiful and what is good, and to do as one pleases, when the things one wants to do are noble, intelligent and generous. An education which does not cultivate the will, is an education that depraves the mind. It is a teacher's duty to teach the pupil how to will.”
― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

“How wonderful is Death, Death, and his brother Sleep! One, pale as yonder waning moon With lips of lurid blue; The other, rosy as the morn When throned on ocean’s wave It blushes o'er the world; Yet both so passing wonderful!”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab

“Anyone who says that our worst behaviors are inevitable knows too little about primates, including us.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov