There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.
—Walter Bagehot, 1863
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Life’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma.
—Gretel Ehrlich, 1994I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.
—John Maynard Keynes, 1917The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.
—Democritus, c. 420 BCBetter sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
—Herman Melville, 1851If you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.
—John Ruskin, 1865Happiness (as the mathematicians might say) lies on a curve, and we approach it only by asymptote.
—Christopher Morley, 1919The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
—Virginia Woolf, 1899