• “Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.”

― Francis Bacon

• “The past can not be cured.”

― Queen Elizabeth I

• “We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.”

― John Henry Newman

• "One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying " Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore."

― Henry Ward Beecher

• "And lilies are still lilies, pulled

By smutty hands, though spotted from their white." ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• "The lily is all in white, like a saint,

And so is no mate for me." ― Thomas Hood

• "How sweet on the breeze of the evening swells

The vesper call of those soothing bells, Borne softly and dying in echoes away, Like a requiem sung to the parting day." ― Letitia Elizabeth Landon

• "O the hard-boiled eggs! There are two corner-stones necessary for a picnic — sunshine and hard-boiled eggs."

― Norman Gale

• "The children of God are very dear but very queer, very nice but very narrow."

― Sundhar Singh

• “If someone puts love for their country, party, movement, idea above the truth about it, whatever it may be, that is not true patriotism, that is not a true fighter for an idea. That is a moral coward in search of an alibi.”

― Borislav Pekić

• “An apple is an excellent thing - until you have tried a peach.” — George du Maurier