The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
H. L. Mencken
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom but it is always on her heart.
Henry Ward Beecher
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority as such. For him skepticism is the highest of duties, blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Thomas Huxley
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
Francis Bacon
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and fitter for new projects than for settled business.
Francis Bacon
Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature and it has often been said by philosophers that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Excess of liberty whether it lies in state or individuals seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Plato
