Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. —H. L. Mencken

Take care, then, not consciously to do or say anything which, if all the world were to know it, you could not acknowledge and say, ‘Yes, that was what I did or that was what I said.’ —Louis IX of France

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. —Edith Sitwell

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. —Will Rodgers

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up. —Anonymous

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.—George Bernard Shaw

So much of modern life is a feverish anticipation of future activity and excitement. We have to learn to step back from this into the freedom and possibility of the present. —Dom Bede Griffiths

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. —Edith Sitwell

To know and not to act is not to know. —Wang Yang-ming

Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes). —Walt Whitman