Clergyman's

“Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.”
– William Penn

“I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.”
– Mason Cooley

“The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it most of us have it not at all. And that’s perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don’t seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.”
– Julie Burchill