I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me — I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world. – John H. Aughey
Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. – E. O. Wilson