Darron Edwards

“the main thing in marriage was love, and that with love one was always happy, because happiness exists only in oneself.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“If any one shall think to excuse human nature, by laying blame on men’s negligence, that they did not carry morality to an higher pitch; and make it out entire in every part, with that clearness of demonstration which some think it capable of; he helps not the matter. Be the cause what it will, our Saviour found mankind under a corruption of manners and principles, which ages after ages had prevailed, and must be confessed, was not in a way or tendency to be mended.”
― John Locke, Delphi Complete Works of John Locke (Illustrated)

“The honorablest part of talk, is to give the occasion; and again to moderate, and pass to somewhat else; for then a man leads the dance.”
― Francis Bacon, Delphi Collected Works of Francis Bacon (Illustrated)

“Their shadows were defined upon the wall, but those of the high presses in the room were all blended together on the wall and on the ceiling, as if the brother and sister were overhung by a dark cavern.  Or, a fanciful imagination—if such treason could have been there—might have made it out to be the shadow of their subject, and of its lowering association with their future.”
― Charles Dickens, Hard Times