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Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.

—Immanuel Kant, 1784

Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.

—Bian Qiao, c. 500 BC

We and the dead ride quick at night. 

—Gottfried August Bürger, 1773

I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.

—Elizabeth Bowen, c. 1970

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

—Hebrews, c. 60

The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.

—William James, 1902

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1776

All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.

—Han Yu, c. 800

I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.

—Catherine the Great, c. 1796

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

—Charles M. Allen, 1967

Do you not see how God is praised by those in the heavens and those on earth? The very birds praised Him as they wing their way.

—The Qur’an, c. 620

The god of music dwelleth out of doors.

—Edith M. Thomas, 1887