Selecta Quotes

#1. To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

Oscar Wilde

#2. When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished!

Napoleon Bonaparte

#3. My thoughts are with you all. Forever conscious of the vast, absurd universe and writing my eternal story I shall remain dead, but dreaming.

A.P. Sweet

#4. G. K. Chesterton: When Man ceases to worship God he does not worship nothing but worships everything.

Pope Francis

#5. Amazement awaits us at every corner.

James Broughton

#6. I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.

Henri Bergson

#7. Is the Church of England an Anglican church? The church did not start in Canterbury, the church did not start in Rome. Whether Canterbury is Anglican or not is immaterial. We are Anglicans. They are the Church of England.

Peter Akinola

#8. Thus was my first year's life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th,1847.

Henry David Thoreau