Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

Oscar Wilde

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

Henry Fielding

The meaning of life is that it stops.

Franz Kafka

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

Abraham Cahan

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Charles Kingsley

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

Matthew Fox

In every death, a busy world comes to an end.

Mason Cooley

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

Blaise Pascal

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

John Steinbeck

Teaching the layperson (divulgare) is not distorting (tergiversare) the subject, but educating the public; and it is our duty as scientists to educate without distorting the essence of the scientific knowledge attained by humanity. The future of our society depends upon this premise.

Felix Alba-Juez

So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.

Thomas Jefferson

I pinch myself because of the understanding that I've been blessed with a real rare opportunity that few Americans ever get - to serve their government and their people at this level.

Marco Rubio