Quotemeal for Saturday, October 23, 2004

"The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgement of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others."

— Hazlitt

More Quotemeal

"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."

— Gaston Bachelard —

"Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God."

— William Cowper —

"Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

"Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual..."

— Thomas à Kempis —