Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908
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Words pay no debts.
—William Shakespeare, 1601I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
—Michelangelo Antonioni, 1967There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.
—Eleanor Robson Belmont, 1957Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924Without music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889Mammon, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911I prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.
—Sallust, c. 35 BCDo not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60Medication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws—hygiene of the body and hygiene of the spirit—is the surest warrant for health and happiness.
—Harriot K. Hunt, 1856A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
—Ethiopian proverbThere are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
—Mark Twain, 1897What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1830