Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

Jane Austen

When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

Sir John A. Macdonald

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

Thomas Fuller

Why should we fear; and what? The laws? They all are armed in virtue's cause; And aiming at the self-same end, Satire is always virtue's friend.

Charles Churchill, Ghost (bk. II

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

Robert Millikan

Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the clouds of heaven. Perhaps these were the errors of others rather than his own; and if it be true that he himself shared the general illusion, what matters it, since his dream rendered him strong against death, and sustained him in a struggle to which he might otherwise have been unequal?

Ernest Renan

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

But Vegas is really my first home.

David Copperfield

People usually feel funny, smile and laugh when I tell them about my strong belief in the very existence of prehistoric advanced technology and great civilizations of wilier races. I just can't wait to see their faces at time the truth is revealed.

Toba Beta

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

Dan Quayle

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Jean Paul

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

William Henry Hudson