There is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10
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The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.
—William James, 1902The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They indeed are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.
—Immanuel Kant, 1784When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599Let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.
—Frederick Douglass, 1878The belly is the teacher of the arts and bestower of invention.
—Persius, c. 55Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
—Hans Zinsser, 1935How sad a sight is human happiness to those whose thoughts can pierce beyond an hour!
—Edward Young, 1741Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.
—Zadie Smith, 2000