In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling.

Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the field of air.

To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation.

Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.

I much condole with you on your late loss... pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again.

E canchis amnia. Everything from shells.

A fool, Mr, Edgeworth, is one who has never made an experiment.

The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first.

[Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism.

They would be shocked if they could see the other women in London: automechanics with grease in their hair, fisherwomen in from te coast with tatooed arms.

Once you have been to the cross, you will never be the same.

Justice and judgement lie often a world apart."~ Emmeline Pankhurst

If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

It is extremely natural for us to desire to see such our thoughts put into the dress of words, without which indeed we can scarce have a clear and distinct idea of them our selves.

We call it the transmission of the lamp in Zen. That's when we take enlightened states of mind and literally, you can transfer them, just like you can hand somebody flowers.

To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse

There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.