Elizabeth Bennett

“Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

“China is a sleeping giant; let him sleep, for if he wakes, he will shake the World.”
― Napoleon

“Honesty can be a dirty gift.”
― Colin Cotterill

“Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise.”
― Yeats