Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme. – Daniel Defoe
Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay. – Daniel Defoe

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme. – Daniel Defoe
Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay. – Daniel Defoe
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. – Daniel Defoe
Each one of us is alone in the world… We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919
Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply given, elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science. – Paul Davies