"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."

~C.S. Lewis

"Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it."

~Saint Augustine of Hippo

"All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established."

~Aristotle

"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."

~Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride."

~Sophocles

1 Corinthians 2:1-5

And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

"As man moves away from order, anguish presses around him. He is the king of his own misery, a degraded sovereign in revolt against himself, without duties, without bonds, without community. Alone, in the midst of the universe, he runs, or rather he seeks to run, into nothingness.”

~Félicité de La Mennais

"Death is the only serious preoccupation of a man."

~Alexandre Dumas

"All cruelty springs from weakness."

~Seneca

"The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live."

~Victor Hugo

"The whole law of human existence consists in nothing other than a man's always being able to bow before the immeasurably great. If people are deprived of the immeasurably great, they will not live and will die in despair."

~Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.”

~Rudyard Kipling

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

~C.S. Lewis

"Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison."

~C.S. Lewis

"But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths."

~Edmund Burke