The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation.

Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the field of air.

To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.

I much condole with you on your late loss... pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again.

E canchis amnia. Everything from shells.

A fool, Mr, Edgeworth, is one who has never made an experiment.

The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first.

[Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism.

Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.

Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.

You never know when you'll have a bad idea for a worse joke.

To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.

If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.

So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.

When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."

They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry

Have you considered that if you don't make waves, nobody including yourself will know that you are alive?