Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
—James Madison, 1794
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’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?
—Thomas Browne, 1642A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851Trade’s proud empire hastes to swift decay.
—Oliver Goldsmith, 1770Let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.
—Frederick Douglass, 1878Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
—Louis Brandeis, 1928If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper that did his job well.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1954Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time.
No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1758The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889Modern life is often a mechanical oppression, and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1935