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Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

Iris Murdoch

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Murdoch, Iris. "The Sublime and the Good." Chicago Review, vol. 13, no. 3, autumn 1959.

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It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.

William Whewell

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The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences

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Whewell, William. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History. Vol. 1, London: John W. Parker, 1840.

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Whewell, William. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Alfred Tennyson

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. In Memoriam A.H.H. London: Edward Moxon, 1850, pt. 106, st. 1.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "In Memoriam A.H.H." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009 pt. 106, st. 1.

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Every man hath a good and bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long.

Robert Burton

The Anatomy of Melancholy

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Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy. Oxford: Henry Cripps, 1621, pt. 1.

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Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy, edited by Holbrook Jackson. New York Review Books, 2001, pt. 1.

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Mathematics takes us still further from what is human, into the region of absolute necessity, to which only the actual world, but every possible world, must conform.

Bertrand Russell

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Russell, Bertrand. "The Study of Mathematics." The New Quarterly, Nov. 1907.

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The saying is true: “The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.”

William Shakespeare

Henry V

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Shakespeare, William. Henry V. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1599, The Curtain, Shoreditch, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 4.

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Shakespeare, William. "Henry the Fifth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 4.

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Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Anthony Powell

A Dance to the Music of Time

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Powell, Anthony. A Dance to the Music of Time: Temporary Kings. Vol. 11, London: Heinemann, 1973, ch. 1.

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Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

Charles Mackay

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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

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Mackay, Charles. "National Delusions." Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions. Vol. 1, London: Richard Bentley, 1841.

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Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan-that is the rule.

John Fowles

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Fowles, John. "Notes on an Unfinished Novel." The Novel Today: Contemporary Writers on Modern Fiction, edited by Malcolm Bradbury. Manchester University Press, 1977.

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Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics, that it can never be fully learnt.

Izaak Walton

The Compleat Angler

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler. London: Richard Marriot, 1653, introduction.

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler, edited by Marjorie Swann. Oxford University Press, 2014, introduction.

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The world's a scene of changes, and to be Constant, in Nature were inconstancy.

Abraham Cowley

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Cowley, Abraham. "Inconstancy." The Mistress with Other Select Poems. London: self-published, 1647.

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I for one believe that there are lessons to be drawn from her life and from the extraordinary and moving reaction to her death.

Elizabeth II

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Elizabeth II. Tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales. 5 Sept. 1997, Buckingham Palace, London, England, UK. Broadcast.

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These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however nobly sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture of these bonds.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stevenson, Robert Louis and Fanny Stevenson. "Epilogue of the Cigar Divan." More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1885.

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The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

Shirley Williams

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Williams, Shirley. Quoted in the Observer. 22 Mar. 1981.

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"If you believe," he shouted to them, "clap your hands; don't let Tink die."

James M. Barrie

Peter Pan

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Barrie, James M. Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. Performed by Gerald du Maurier, Nina Boucicault, Joan Burnett, Christine Silver, A.W. Baskcomb, and Alice DuBarry. 27 Dec. 1904, Duke of York's Theatre, Westminster, London, England, UK, act 4.

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