In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful --in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason --and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

G. K. Chesterton

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Wendell Berry

My goal is to live until I die.

Will Rogers

Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.

William S. Burroughs

Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.

Eric Schmidt

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

Austin O'Malley

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

Jane Austen

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Harry S. Truman

Do what you fear and fear disappears.

Dr. David Schwartz

Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

Virgil, Eclogues, no. 9, l. 50 (

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Charles Dickens

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

William Hazlitt