The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911
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It is more blessed to give than to receive.
—Acts of the Apostles, c. 80The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.
—William James, 1902There’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
—William Hazlitt, 1819I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
—Charles Dickens, 1843There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCIt is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
—Jean de La Fontaine, 1668The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.
—Anthony Burgess, 1972There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
—Booth Tarkington, 1914The waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.
—Izaak Walton, 1653Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920