Barnacled Hermit Quotes & Sayings

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence. — Philip James Bailey

Never give advice in a crowd. — Pope Paul VI

Oliver's boardroom was actually a library. A good library. A library where books looked worn-out and well read and loved on. The library was two stories tall with a balcony wrapped around the top level. The big window on the top floor was propped half open. A rebel beam of sunlight pushed through the clouds, shining through the rain beads stuck to the screen and glass. And then that strange, golden rain light shone warm and pretty over Oliver's books. I wondered if the sun had missed the books, had waited as long as it possibly cold to shine over those spines again. I knew how that felt, to love a story so much you didn't just want to read it, you wanted to feel it. — Natalie Lloyd

The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from ... political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities. — Robert H. Jackson

Eavesdropping is a deplorable habit, but I have developed worse ones since. — Patrick Rothfuss

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. — Natalie Clifford Barney