The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
—Ouida, 1880Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1758The various modes of religion which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosophers equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.
—Edward Gibbon, 1776Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCThe best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
—George Eliot, 1876It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.
—Albert Einstein, 1930Everyone complains about his memory, and no one complains about his judgment.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1666At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
—William Blake, c. 1790Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.
—Homer, c. 750 BCWe are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things, and once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774