Every house: temple, empire, school.
—Joseph Joubert, 1800
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If the people be the governors, who shall be governed?
—John Cotton, c. 1636Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions, as it were, by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
—Elizabeth Charles, 1862As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934We wish away whole years, and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.
—Joseph Addison, 1711Happiness is a warm puppy.
—Charles Schulz, 1971He who has nothing has no friends.
—Greek proverbMidnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815A world is sooner destroyed than made.
—Thomas Burnet, 1684A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
—Pericles, c. 450 BC