Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Karl Von Clausewitz

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Come, my friends, 'T is not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses fr

Most people would rather die than think: many do.

Bertrand Russell

Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.

Matt Groening

To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

Evelyn Waugh

The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical.

Henry Taube

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

Johan Huizinga

What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.

Victor Hugo

But it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Lewis Carroll

I am captivated more by dreams of the future than by the history of the past

Thomas Jefferson