Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains that of relating the essential sequence of historical action and, qua history, to tell what happened, not why.

I can't afford to pay them any other way.

Andrew Carnegie

Maybe if everything was beautiful, nothing would be.People saw one thing, they swooned over it. They saw this other thing, they pounded it with sticks.Maybe there had to be variety for life to work. Swoon over everything, you get bored. Beat everything with a stick-boring.

Dean Koontz

He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

John Green

How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answered that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

Henry David Thoreau

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

Maria Mitchell

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

Venerable Bede

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to sharpen.

Eden Phillpotts, A Shadow Passes

That action alone is just that does not harm either party to a dispute

Mahatma Gandhi

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Ibn Gabirol

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.

Ernest Bramah

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

Dorothy Parker, In Writers at Wo

I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

Myrna Loy