If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. – Joseph Addison
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul. – Joseph Addison
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. – Joseph Addison
There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty. – Joseph Addison
It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the worlds total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses. – Barbara Ehrenreich