The pen is mightier than the sword!

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

If everyone takes one action for peace every day, our future generations will be able to enjoy peace.

Awaken each day with the expectation that something wonderful is about to happen.

[Bruno] Latour argues that one of the foundational gestures of western modernity has been the effort to formulate and police a heightened antimony between nonhuman nature and human cu

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Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

I grew up with a great sense of insecurity in figuring out what I was and where I belonged.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation