“It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.”
Youth and the Bright Medusa, "A Gold Slipper" (1920)
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“We must love, no matter whom, no matter what, no matter how, provided only we do love.”
Il faut aimer n'importe qui, n'importe quoi, n'importe comment, pourvu qu'on aime.
Les Idées de Madame Aubray (1867), Act I, sc. ii; translation from Louis Proal (trans. A. R. Allinson) Passion and Criminality (London: Imperial Press, 1905) p. 563.
From a 1903 letter to President Roosevelt, John Hay Papers, Library of Congress.
Sparks
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
Context: Everything matters more than we think it does, and, at the same time, nothing matters so much as we think it does. The merest spark may set all Europe in a blaze, but though all Europe be set in a blaze twenty times over, the world will wag itself right again.
His comment to his wife On his daily prayers he would sings devotional songs out of tune and metre. Quoted in page=104
“Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?”
Seigneur, si j'ai raison, qu'importe à qui je sois?
Nicomède, act I, scene ii.
Nicomède (1651)
First inaugural address (January 20, 1993), Washington, D.C.
1990s
“We live in a world with so many dangers that we have to be careful whom we trust.”
Source: Raven's Gate
Source: Drenai series, Quest for Lost Heroes, Ch. 10
Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community