The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined; but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn't.
Aldous HuxleySo long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
Aldous HuxleyBut a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.
Aldous HuxleyThe lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Aldous Huxley