Mark Twain

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

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Ashley Dukes, The Man with a Load of Mischief (1924)

Adventure must be held in delicate fingers. It should be handled, not embraced. It should be sipped, not swallowed at a gulp.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought. Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

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Hippocrates

Walking is man's best medicine.

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Arab Proverb

Blessed is he who speaks a kindness thrice blessed is he who repeats it.

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Kate Reid

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

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Oscar Wilde

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.

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William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

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Buddha

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

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Albert Camus

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

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H. L. Mencken

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

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