It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Edmund Burke

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Another important aspect of our home was respect for ideas.

Robert B. Laughlin

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.

George Eliot

When we say science we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.

Percy Wynham Lewis

I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job.

Roseanne Barr

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Hector Hugh Munro

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Robert Baden-Powell

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

Don Marquis

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

Lady Bird Johnson

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

Christopher Marlowe