Jacquline Ard

“Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.”
― St. Jerome, Letters of St. Jerome

“It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.”
― Erasmus

“Broadly speaking, however, Christianity is a universal church originating in a germ that was alien to the society in which it played its part, while Islam originated in a germ that was indigenous.”
― Arnold Joseph Toynbee, A Study of History, Abridgement of Vols 1-6

“The danger, of course, existed in her curiosity, her intelligence, and her stubbornly observant eyes. She had to go away before she found out too much. No one wished her, personally, any harm; she was small and pretty and no one would want to hurt her, but if she became a danger she must suffer.”
― Dorothy Eden, Lamb to the Slaughter