We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!
—Humphrey Gilbert, 1583
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
—Carl Sandburg, 1934To know the abyss of the darkness and not to fear it, to entrust oneself to it and whatever may arise from it—what greater gift?
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1975Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BCReminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1886Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887When you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverbTreaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.
—Charles de Gaulle, 1963The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.
—Edward O. Wilson, 2009The law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
—Jack London, 1912Industrialism is the religion with “the machine” as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.
—Dora Russell, 1983When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1657