Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. – Thomas Carlyle
The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once. – Thomas Carlyle
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. – Thomas Carlyle
Heres my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then theres this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering. – Carl Hiaasen