The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.
All new news is old news happening to new people
The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
All of us admire people we don't like and like people we don't admire.
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.