How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. – Joseph Joubert
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come. – Joseph Joubert
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. – Joseph Joubert
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. – Douglas Adams