The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life. – Bill Clinton
The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrational bipeds who hurt only themselves. – Maria Edgeworth, Thoughts on Bores
Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. – Samuel Johnson
