What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

Friedrich von Schiller

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

Robert K. Merton

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.

Hannah More

The Communist leaders in Moscow, Peking and Hanoi must fully understand that the United States considers the freedom of South Viet Nam vital to our interests. And they must know that we are not bluffing in our determination to defend those interests.

Gerald R. Ford

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.

Sam Sheppard

A travel agent offered me a 21 day special. He told me I would fly from New York to London. Then from Tokyo back to New York. I asked him...how am I supposed to get from London to Tokyo? He told me That is why we give you 21 days.

Rodney Dangerfield

Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money.

Robin Williams

There's lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven't got time to enjoy it.

Josh Billings

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

Arthur Golden

Mandatory auditor rotation is designed to address a potential conflict of interest between a public company and its auditor. Because an auditor is hired and paid by the public company it audits, the auditor's desire to maintain a good relationship with its client could conflict with its duty to rigorously question the client's financial statements.

Robert Pozen

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I

Theodore White

For each new morning with its light,For rest and shelter of the night,For health and food, for love and friends,For everything Thy goodness sends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson