Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.

Blaise Cendrars Sauser

We of the twentieth century should not allow ourselves to think vaguely of the Middle Ages as a benighted or shadowy period when life and the people who constituted it had scarcely anything in common with ourselves. In reality the men of the Middle Ages were moved by the same emotions and impulses as our own, and their lives presented the same incongruous mixture of nobility and baseness.

Robert Huntington Fletcher, A Hi

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

Aristotle

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

Lord Byron

When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.

E. M. Cioran

As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.

Catharine Esther Beecher

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

Cardinal De Rets

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

Robert Musil

What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Henry David Thoreau

Children and fools speak true

Proverb

I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?

Michel de Montaigne

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln