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The love of our country, as the term has usually been understood, has too often been found to be one of those specious illusions which are employed by impostors for the purpose of rendering the multitude the blind instruments of their crooked designs.

William Godwin

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Godwin, William. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice and Its Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness. London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1793, bk. 5, ch. 16.

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Godwin, William. An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. Oxford University Press, 2013, bk. 5, ch. 16.

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides!

Artur Schnabel

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Schnabel, Artur. Quoted in Chicago Daily News. 11 June 1958.

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I know my soul hath power to know all things,
Yet is she blind and ignorant in all:
I know I'm one of Nature's little kings,
Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall.

Sir John Davies

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Of Human Knowledge

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Davies, John, Sir. Nosce Teipsum. 1599, st. 44.

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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

John Burroughs

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Burroughs, John. "The Modern Skeptic." The Light of Day. Houghton Mifflin, 1900.

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It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.

Francis Crick

Proposing the double helix as the structure of DNA.

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Crick, Francis and James D. Watson. "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid." Nature, 25 Apr. 1953.

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Once literature is contrived as the hymn of the nation, the flag of the race, the mouthpiece of a political party or the voice of a class or a group it can be employed as a mighty and all-engulfing tool of propaganda. However, such literature loses what is inherent in literature, ceases to be literature, and becomes a substitute for power and profit.

Gao Xingjian

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The Case for Literature

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Gao Xingjian. "The Case for Literature." Nobel Lecture. 7 Dec. 2000, Swedish Academy, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

Pierre Trudeau

On relations between Canada and the US.

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Trudeau, Pierre. Speech at National Press Club. National Press Club meeting. 25 Mar. 1969, Washington, DC, USA.

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It may be that there is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

Edmund Wilson

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Wilson, Edmund. "The Princess with the Golden Hair." Memoirs of Hecate County. Doubleday, 1946.

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Did you ever hear my definition of marriage? It is, that it resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they can not be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.

Sydney Smith

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Smith, Sydney. Quoted in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith, by Saba Holland. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855, ch. 11.

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You see, Mrs. Walker, this is quite an opportunity for me. For the past 50 years or so I've been getting more and more worried about Christmas. Seems we're all so busy trying to beat the other fellow in making things go faster and look shinier and cost less that Christmas and I are sort of getting lost in the shuffle.

Kris Kringle

Miracle on 34th Street

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Miracle on 34th Street. Directed by George Seaton, 20th Century Fox, 1947.

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You're a good looking boy, you have big broad shoulders, but he is a man. It takes more than big broad shoulders to make a man, Harvey, and you have a long way to go.

High Noon

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High Noon. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Stanley Kramer Productions, 1952.

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Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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Niebuhr, Reinhold. The Irony of American History. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952, ch. 3.

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How long will the human race sweat under the superstition that, in order to be happy and useful and intelligent, it is necessary to believe in things? What nonsense indeed! Human progress consists, not in acquiring beliefs, but in getting rid of them.

H.L. Mencken

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Mencken, H. L. "Repetition Generale." Smart Set, Mar. 1921.

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We come out of the dark and go into the dark again, and in between lie the experiences of our life. But the beginning and end, birth and death, we do not experience; they have no subjective character, they fall entirely in the category of objective events, and that's that.

Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain

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Mann, Thomas. Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1924, ch. 6.

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Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 6.

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New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it.

Saul Bellow

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Bellow, Saul. Mr. Sammler's Planet. Viking Press, 1970, pt. 6.

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The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Lord Chesterfield

On sex.

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Stated to his son, Philip Stanhope. c. 1773.

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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

Roald Dahl

The Minpins

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Dahl, Roald. The Minpins. Jonathan Cape, 1991.

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For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.

Apostle Paul

Romans 7:19

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Romans 7:19).

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And I honor the man who is willing to sink
Half his present repute for the freedom to think,
And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak,
Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

James Russell Lowell

A Fable of Critics

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Lowell, James Russell [published anonymously]. A Fable for Critics: A Glance at a Few of Our Literary Progenies. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1848.

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The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't to search for meaning. It's to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually, you'll be dead.

Bojack Horseman

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"Later." BoJack Horseman, written by Raphael Bob-Waksberg, directed by Martin Cendreda, season 1, episode 12, ShadowMachine and Tornante Company, 2014.

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