Kate Joekel

“Knowledge does not bring wisdom, especially when it is cheaply and easily come by. There was peace in the learning of the past, because men earned it slowly, absorbing it into the very stuff and pattern of their lives. Now any glib fellow can get a smattering of it, and be none the less a fool, only the more dangerous. For his object will be neither wisdom nor peace, but the vulgar determination to make good his own ends, at no matter whose expense.’ The”
― Margaret Irwin, The Proud Servant

“If even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade.”
― Suzanne Adair, Paper Woman

“They had not learnt the great lesson, that trade prospers best when it is left alone by law-makers. They were inexperienced in making laws, and charmed with their new power, thought it would be easy to make the world go rightly by making laws about everything. Continually the laws when made were found to have quite different results to what the law-makers had expected, and had to be repealed the next year.”
― Louise Creighton, Life of Edward the Black Prince

“You can remember when you look at them.” “Remember?” “Aurelia,” he says. “To speak the name is to make live again.”
― Martha Conway, Thieving Forest