If life must not be taken too seriously then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it, it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons fools and idiots, especially during youth.
Honore de Balzac
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers that we may not unsay them in our practice.
Matthew Henry
A book that is shut is but a block.
Thomas Fuller
When Sir Joshua Reynolds died / All Nature was degraded, / The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear / And all his pictures faded.
William Blake
Iteration like friction is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
George Eliot
The spirited horse which will try to win the race of its own accord will run even faster if encouraged.
Ovid
A man should remove not only unnecessary acts but also unnecessary thoughts for then superfluous activity will not follow after
Marcus Aurelius
Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.
Hedy Lamarr
