Best Quotes
“What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.”
“Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.”
-- George MacDonald
“Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.”
-- Donna Leon
“The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.”
-- Michelangelo