“Yet I argue not against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate one jot of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer right onward.”— John Milton, "To Cyriack Skinner" (c. 1655)Share
“A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged.”— John MiltonShare
“Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.”— François de La RochefoucauldShare
“Where we find a difficulty we may always expect that a discovery awaits us. Where there is cover we hope for game.”— C.S. LewisShare
“Love and what generates it. Rebellion and what creates it. Liberty and what nourishes it. Three manifestations of God.”— Khalil GibranShare
“They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.”— ConfuciusShare
“A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.”— Henry David ThoreauShare
“If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love.”— Fyodor DostoevskyShare