All the learned and authentic fellows. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3.

The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer classes have adopted a certain way of living, producers have an incentive to improve the methods of manufacture so that soon it is possible for the poorer classes to follow suit. Thus luxury furthers progress. Innovation "is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. The luxury today is the necessity of tomorrow." Luxury is the roadmaker of progress: it develops latent needs and makes people discontented. In so far as they think consistently, moralists who condemn luxury must recommend the comparatively desireless existence of the wild life roaming in the woods as the ultimate ideal of civilized life.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

But yet she listen'd--'tis enough-- Who listens once will listen twice; Her heart, be sure, is not of ice, And one refusal no rebuff.

Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things!

We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

Ring out ye crystal spheres! Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time, And let the bass of Heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.

Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, providence, - what are they?

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny.

Though I know he loves me, Tonight my heart is sad; His kiss was not so wonderful As all the dreams I had.

I have all the money I'll ever need - if I die by 4 today.

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.