Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
—Saint Augustine, c. 400
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’Tis the sport to have the engineer / Hoist with his own petard.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880A friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010When I do a show, the whole show revolves around me, and if I don’t show up, they can just forget it.
—Ethel Merman, c. 1955All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
—Gertrude Stein, 1914Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe—though we didn’t know it at the time.
—Susan Sontag, 1973They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605Kings and fools know no law.
—German proverbThe most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them.
—Denis Diderot, 1777