Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

Marcus V. Pollio

Ideas are very important to me.

Bret Victor

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

Thomas S. Kuhn

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Benjamin Franklin

Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.

John Acton

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

Victor Hugo

I asked my wife if she enjoys a cigarette after sex and she said, no one drag is enough

Rodney Dangerfield

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.

Jim Davis

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

James Russell Lowell

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own experience -- more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Susan Sontag

Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.

Jamie Moyer

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

George J. Mitchell