Gilbert Chesterton

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

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Thomas Jefferson

Delay is preferable to error.

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P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

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Edward Gibbon

The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher, as equally false and by the magistrate, as equally useful.

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Johann von Goethe

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

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Bill Beattie

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

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Plato, Symposium

But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.

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Penn Jillette, in a Compuserve chat

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

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Phyllis Bottome

There are two ways of meeting difficulties You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

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Anon.

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

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Stuart Seaton

The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity.

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