"I don't know how not to get the flu."

-- Alfred W. Crosby

“I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.”
“We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.”
“I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science fiction story. And if I was doing a science fiction story then I would come up with what can go wrong with this system.”
“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
“You're a leader. It's your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don't apologize to anybody.Â ”
“There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.”
“Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible.”
“Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation--the realization of an idea by an act of the will.”

Source : John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.109

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