Love is metaphysical gravity.

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Sir John Lubbock

The world we live in might not be free from pain, but you have the ability to create for yourself a world free from struggle.

Sheila Applegate

Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

Milton Friedman

It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy.

Craig Ferguson

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

Henrik Ibsen, Pillars of Society

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

Isaac Asimov

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Christopher Marlowe

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them

Mark Twain

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

H. L. Mencken