The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It said simply: He kept down the cost and set the type right.

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favourable and unfavourable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience. p. 133.

Bertrand Russell

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Richard Watson Gilder

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

Henry R. Luce

To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her.

Jodi Picoult

I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.

Anna Chlumsky

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Edmund Burke

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

Carl Sagan

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

Richard Dawkins

Doesn't make much sense to me to spray everything with chemicals when you're trying to clean.

James Dye

The French courage proceeds from vanity

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Por lo demás, la literatura no es otra cosa que un sueño dirigido.

Jorge Luis Borges

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

English Proverb