Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear!

Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou wert by.

The big round tears Coursed one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled.

It is precisely those things which belong to "the people" which have historically been despoiled- wild creatures, the air, and waterways being notable examples. This goes to the heart of why property rights are socially important in the first place. Property rights mean self-interested monitors. No owned creatures are in danger of extinction. No owned forests are in danger of being leveled. No one kills the goose that lays the golden egg when it is his goose.

Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639 There is no defect in Scripture, so anyone may "have the light of his natural understanding so completed... that there can be no want of needful instruction" for any good work God would have that person do.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

And rolling far along the gloomy shores The voice of days of old and days to be.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.