We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. – Mark Twain
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. – Bertrand Russell
If a man examine carefully his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. – Emerson, Journals, 1827
