Adam Cuninghame

“Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

“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

“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

“People ought not to do that. To keep children from knowing things, I mean. They should tell the truth.”
― Philip Pullman, The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume Three