Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635
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Written laws are like spiderwebs: they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.
—Anacharsis, c. 550 BCBrain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCAmong famous traitors of history, one might mention the weather.
—Ilka Chase, 1969One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929Best is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCSeek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.
—Rumi, c. 1260Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
—Veronica Wedgwood, 1946We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?
—Thomas Browne, 1642The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.
—Judge Learned Hand, 1944