The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. We go on a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences—to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others.
—William Hazlitt, 1822
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Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
—H.L. Mencken, 1921The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
—Wendell Berry, 1983I imagine that one of the first forms of behavior, like one of the first signals, may be reduced to this: “Keep me warm.”
—Michel Serres, 1982I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1928How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.
—Cicero, 45 BCOther nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
—Aristotle, c. 322 BCFortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
—Norman Douglas, 1917Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
—Alvin Toffler, 1970Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732