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I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1595

The elephant, although a gross beast, is yet the most decent and most sensible of any other upon earth. Although he never changes his female, and hath so tender a love for her whom he hath chosen, yet he never couples with her but at the end of every three years, and then only for the space of five days.

—St. Francis de Sales, 1609

The young man must store up, the old man must use.

—Seneca the Younger, c. 63

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

—Kathleen Norris, 1931

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

—Aristotle, c. 322 BC

Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.

—Robert A. Heinlein, 1984

He who travels by sea is nothing but a worm on a piece of wood, a trifle in the midst of a powerful creation. The waters play about with him at will, and no one but God can help him.

—Muhammad as-Saffar, 1846

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

—Saint Augustine, 397

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

—Elbert Hubbard, 1911

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

—Francis Bacon, 1615

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881

There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.

—Jean Anouilh, 1934

The great difficulty lies in trying to transpose last night’s moment to a day which has no knowledge of it.

—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942