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History only exists, in the final analysis, for God. ~Albert Camus, The Rebel



It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ~Krishnamurti



The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill. ~Ted Morgan



The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. ~Walter Lippmann



To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion. ~Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie



In America you can buy bucket-sized cups of coffee in any flavour you like other than coffee-flavour. ~Author Unknown



She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XVIII "A Flood of Sunshine"



Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. ~Carl Sandburg



By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. ~Thomas Merton



I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ~Isaac Newton



Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. ~Jesse Jackson



Eighty percent of success is showing up. ~Woody Allen



I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. ~George Bernard Shaw



The sound of a car door opening in front of you is similar to the sound of a gun being cocked. ~Amy Webster



A man's library is a sort of harem. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life, 1860



We look for some reward of our endeavours and are disappointed; not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Pulvis et umbra," 1888



Sometimes I think and other times I am. ~Paul Valery, Variete: Cantiques spirituels, 1924



If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. ~Maya Angelou



Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown. ~Emily Saliers, "Center Stage," Indigo Girls, 1989



There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. ~Samuel Johnson