It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Virginibus Puerisque, 1881

I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders. – Robert G. Ingersoll

To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge. – Albert Camus, The Rebel, 1951

A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg