Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.

It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order.

Asa Gray

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Samuel Johnson

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

G. K. Chesterton

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?

Umberto Eco

A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Shirley MacLaine

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Never give advice in a crowd.

Arabic Proverb

There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.

James Thurber

Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.

David Deutsch

An unsanctified temper is a fruitful source of error, and a mighty impediment to truth.

Elias Lyman Magoon

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Joe E. Lewis