Nature contains no one constant form.
—Paul-Henri Dietrich d’Holbach, 1770
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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878Money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one’s conquests.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1866The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1908An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
—James Russell Lowell, c. 1865Who hears the fishes when they cry?
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
—Samuel Johnson, 1780All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
—Edmund Burke, 1796Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
—Veronica Wedgwood, 1946Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860