You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. – James M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when Tis safely got Tis worth the winning. The worst of t is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em. – Bryan Waller Proctor
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinozas God, it wont love us in return. – Bertrand Russell
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. – Gunther Grass
