Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of your own minds, and the examination of the fair material world which extends around you!

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians.

George Santayana, The Life of Re

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

John Ruskin

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

Henri Frederic Amiel

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

Meg Cabot

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

Joaquin Phoenix

Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.

Samuel M. Shoemaker

The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.

Jim Bunning

It is not the position, but the disposition.

J. E. Dinger

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.

Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Li

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

James Russell Lowell