Can you take your country with you on the soles of your shoes?
—Georg Büchner, 1835
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Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929God is our father, but even more is God our mother.
—Pope John Paul I, 1978We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706The people are the foundation of the state. If the foundations are firm, the state will be tranquil.
—Classic of History, c. 400 BCRain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain there would be no life.
—John Updike, 1989We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
—Aesop, c. 600 BCOne of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
—Iris Murdoch, 1978Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BC