She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved.
― Patrick White (The Tree of Man)
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.
― George Washington (via enchants)
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
― Aldous Huxley (via thepoliticalnotebook)
