The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931
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Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
—Winston Churchill, 1939Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1921It is a luxury to be understood.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1831Friendships begin with liking or gratitude—roots that can be pulled up.
—George Eliot, 1876I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871If not us, who? If not now, when?
—Czech slogan, 1989Childhood has no forebodings—but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
—George Eliot, 1860Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
—Eleanor Roosevelt, 1942How sweet it is to have people point and say, “There he is.”
—Persius, c. 60A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851