Jacob Shmidt

“Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Getting Married

“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
― Mark Twain