Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856
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I was born without knowing why, I have lived without knowing why, and I am dying without either knowing why or how.
—Pierre Gassendi, 1655The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986When we define democracy now, it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1941For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.
—Italo Calvino, 1957If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
—Book of Job, c. 600 BCI want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962I ride rough waters and shall sink with no one to save me.
—Virginia Woolf, 1931Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
—Samuel Johnson, 1771Imitate the ass in his love to his master.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 388Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1911