Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.
—George Eliot, 1868
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If a patient is poor, he is committed to a public hospital as “psychotic”; if he can afford the luxury of a private sanitarium, he is put there with the diagnosis of “neurasthenia”; if he is wealthy enough to be isolated in his own home under constant watch of nurses and physicians, he is simply an indisposed “eccentric.”
—Pierre Marie Janet, 1930The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936Well now, there’s a remedy for everything except death.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.
—Mencius, c. 270 BCThere be beasts that, at a year old, observe more, and pursue that which is for their good more prudently, than a child can do at ten.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1651Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
—Herbert Hoover, 1936From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
—Alexander Pope, 1709Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1918Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCThe best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
—George Eliot, 1876