When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

G. W. F. Hegel

It can be said of him, when he departed he took a man's life along with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of time.

Thomas Carlyle

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

Albert Ellis

Love is merely madness...

William Shakespeare

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.

Frantz Fanon

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

Bill Veeck

Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's

Erwin Chargaff

It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?

Jodi Picoult

I'm the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be.

Bret Hart

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Benjamin Franklin

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Ernest Hemingway

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Herbert Samuel