Caleb E.

“But, then, you were born a pagan; I am trying laboriously to make myself one. I can take nothing for granted, I can enjoy nothing as it comes along. Beauty, pleasure, art, women - I have to invent an excuse, a justification for everything that's delightful. Otherwise I can't enjoy it with an easy conscience.”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

“By dying for a conviction a man proves only that he is sincere, not that he is right.”
― Roland H. Bainton, Erasmus of Christendom

“Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“In his last years Linacre gave up medicine for the Church and then for the first time read the gospels. On so doing he exclaimed, 'Either this is not the gospel or we are not Christians.”
― Roland H. Bainton, Erasmus of Christendom