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To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

—George Eliot, 1872

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1732

Recreations should be as sauces to your meat, to sharpen your appetite unto the duties of your calling, and not to glut yourselves with them.

—Thomas Gouge, 1672

Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.

—Theodore Roszak, 1972

I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

—Aldous Huxley, 1925

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.

—Horace, 20 BC

Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.

—Henry George, 1879

I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.

—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863

One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

—George Santayana, c. 1914

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chawing a hunk of melon in the dust.

—Elizabeth Bowen, 1955

What is life but organized energy?

—Arthur C. Clarke, 1958

Conjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
Adds poignancy to Winter

—Emily Dickinson, 1863