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“As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.”
Source : Joseph Butler (1852). “The Analogy of Religion ... A new edition, with an introductory essay, by Rev. Albert Barnes; and a complete index”, p.437
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“The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones, trees and rocks; and he, wretchedly waiting in the exterior halls, could not even get his finger on one tiny, tiny lever.”
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“Believers are often encouraged to spend some time each day alone praying and reading the Bible. This is a good thing, modeled by Jesus himself. But too often people view this time with God as sufficient, and as separate from the rest of their lives; they essentially leave Jesus on their bedside table and ignore him the rest of the day. This is a far cry from the ongoing walking in the Spirit, abiding in Christ, persevering, praying, and rejoicing presented in Scripture.”
Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com
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“Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!”
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“If you go to the city of Washington, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of congress, and mis-representatives of the masses claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad that I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.”
Source : Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918. 
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“Cycling, cycling forever bear, wolf, caribou. When had it all started, where will it end? We are all part of one, from such simple beginnings and yet all so different. Yet one. One and again.”
Source : Kathryn Lasky (2011). “Wolves of the Beyond”, p.99, Scholastic Inc.
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“It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.”
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“A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.”
Source : "Shakai kagaku tokyu" by Waseda Daigaku Shakai Kagaku Kenkyujo, Waseda Daigaku Ajia Taiheiyo Kenkyu Senta, (p. 883), 1992.
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“It may be that Emerson is going to hell, but of one thing I am certain; he will change the climate there, and emigration will set that way.”
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“I thought I'd had another few decades before my noise complaint years.”
Source : Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.58, Portobello Books
