Pliny Quotes
I saw a dead branch on the road the other day. Squished by some uncaring SUVs. The sap of it's life running on the cold asphalt. It must have just occurred because it was still green. I could see it's bark torn away exposing it's tender white innards. Someone should at least erect a cross at that spot.
There is no book so bad but something valuable may be derived from it.
Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
Human nature is greedy of novelty.
It is the nature of man to be greedy for novelty.
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
Physicians acquire their knowledge from our dangers, making experiments at the cost of our lives.
Magic is detestable, vain and idle...though it has what I might call shadows of truth.
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written' in writing what deserves to be read;
and in so living as to make the
world happier and better for our living in it.