Brian Engler

“Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts most of all.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian