Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
—Lord Acton, 1887
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The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.
—Albert Einstein, 1930A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1892The 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, 1902I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you.
—François Rabelais, 1535Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardAmong famous traitors of history, one might mention the weather.
—Ilka Chase, 1969I came upon no wine, / So wonderful as thirst.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1923There is no profit without another’s loss.
—Roman proverbI order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.
—Giuseppe Verdi, 1900