"Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke."

“He who designs an unsafe structure or an inoperative machine is a bad Engineer; he who designs them so that they are safe and operative, but needlessly expensive, is a poor Engineer, and … he who does the best work at the lowest cost sooner or later stands at the top of his profession.”

Source : "Shop management; a paper read before the American society of mechanical engineers". Book by F.W. Taylor, New York, Foreword, 1911.

“Say what you will about Gypsy women, but they are remarkable assessors of blues guitar talent.”

“Who dat dere's gunna beat dat team? Who Dat? Who dat?”

“My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable torpor, moss growing on the surface of life. Without a trace of bitterness I savour my absurd awareness of being nothing, a mere foretaste of death and extinction.”

“If you don't think God's love for the unlovable is amazing, go try to love someone who hates you for a day. See if that helps.”

“Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.”

Source : Leslie Stephen (1893). “An Agnostic's Apology”

“Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.”

“The governess was not much liked in the village. She was too tall, too fond of books, too grave, and, a curious thing, never smiled unless there was something to smile at.”