Quotes for Autumn

Here we present a selection of quotes for Autumn, arranged for the season by date of birth of the author.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtue, and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Our worst enemies are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel, our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.

In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

As long as one suffers one lives.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of brotherly love and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

Destruction is after all a form of creation.

You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.

If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice saved, there would be enough there to fill a full lifetime with delight. Venice, with all its complexity, is in itself the greatest surviving work of art in the world.

Alexandria, ancient asparagus bed of theological absurdity, is now somewhat shabbily furnished with churches.

If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.

Grace Kelly
12.11.1929 – 14.9.1982

I love walking in the woods, on the trails, along the beaches. I love being part of nature. I love walking alone. It is therapy. One needs to be alone, to recharge one’s batteries.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately importanr.

From a private letter to Tolkien: All my philosophy of history hangs upon a sentence of your own: ‘Deeds were done which were not wholly in vain’