Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.

Christopher Bond

Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

Marcus Aurelius

Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

We assemble parliaments and councils, to have the benefit of their collected wisdom; but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices, and private interests. By the help of these, artful men overpower their wisdom, and dupe its possessors; and if we may judge by the acts, arrets, and edicts, all the world over, for regulating commerce, an assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.

Benjamin Franklin

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

Man's consciousness is his least known and most abused vital organ. Most people believe that consciousness as such is some sort of indeterminate faculty which has no nature, no specific identity and therefore no requirements, no needs, no rules for being properly or improperly used.... Men abuse, subvert and starve their consciousness in a manner they would not dream of applying to their hair, toenails or stomachs. They know that these things have a specific identity and specific requirements, and, if one whishes to preserve them, one must comb one's hair, trim one's toenails and refrain from swallowing rat poison.

Ayn Rand, Our Cultural ValueDepr

Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.

Ivan Pavlov

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

Albert Camus

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

William Allen White

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.

Miguel de Unamuno

All writing is rewriting.

John Green