The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

James B. Conant

Remorse begets reform.

William Cowper

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

Victor Hugo

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Arthur Rimbaud

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it ain't the gout.

Josh Billings

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There are no tragedies, just facts not recognized in time.

William D. Montapert

This leads to the further reflection, that no other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought, as agriculture. I know of nothing so pleasant to the mind, as the discovery of anything which is at once new and valuable -- nothing which so lightens and sweetens toil, as the hopeful pursuit of such discovery. And how vast, and how varied a field is agriculture, for such discovery. The mind, already trained to thought, in the country school, or higher school, cannot fail to find there an exhaustless source of profitable enjoyment.

Abraham Lincoln, Address before

I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.

Donald Davis

Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife.

Al Bundy

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

Eric Hoffer

I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.

Shania Twain