“God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.” HumansHeartMightCommonSecretShareHuman NatureSpeechNeighborGrantedFacultyTreasuryRecess Author:Saint Basil
“In old age the secret springs of human nature are apt to come out.” HumansAgeSecretHuman NatureSpringOld Age Author:Esther Forbes
“No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?” HumansMomentsHappensArtistCertainBitsSecretDoubtHuman NatureLuckBlowSupremePsychologicalPhrasesNo DoubtNow And ThenQuotationsCunningHammersPinsBorrowedEmulateTemptingCondiments Author:Ethel Smyth