"Religion is designed for stupid people. Science is designed for stupid people who are embarrassed by their stupidity, who want to do something about it."

“The stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions.”

“Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day.”

Source : Richard Crashaw (2013). “Selected Poems”, p.48, Carcanet

“We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.”

“I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.”

Source : William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.155

“Everybody's got their poison, and mine is sugar.”

“Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness mean? It means you appreciate what is. You value, you give attention to, you honor whatever is here at this moment.”

“Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.”

Source : Leo Strauss, Hilail Gildin (1989). “An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays”, p.102, Wayne State University Press

“Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.”