G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
Source: Utopia of Usurers (1917), p. 34
Source: The Course of True Love [and First Dates]
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
Source: Utopia of Usurers (1917), p. 34
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister
Eine Mutter, die ihren Kindern nicht alles: Freund, Lehrer, Vertraute, Quell der Freude und des gefestigten Stolzes, Ansporn, Dämpfer, Ankläger, Versöhner, Richter und Vergeber ist, die Mutter hat offenbar ihren Beruf verfehlt.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
18 February 1942, quoted in Hitler's Table Talk, 1941–1944
1940s
“But let none think that public prayer will make up for closet communion.”
George Müller (1805–1898) German-English clergyman
A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself, First Part.
First Part of Narrative
“What a man does in his closet ought not to affect the rights of third persons.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon (1732–1802) British Baron
Outram v. Morewood (1793), 5 T. R. 123.
Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso
Ogni pelo arricciossi
E scolorossi al Saracino il viso,
La voce ch'era per uscir fermossi.
Canto I, stanza 29 (tr. Barbara Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)