We lovd, and we lovd as long as we could Til our love was lovd out in us both; But our marriage is dead, when the pleasure has fled: Twas pleasure that made it an oath. – John Dryden
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more. – Agnes Repplier
Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry. – John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy, 1920