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“In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.”
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“No one has ever become poor from giving.”
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“There is a gentle, but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of a man's character and conduct, which is not the less effectual because it works insensibly, and because it is really the last thing he dreams of.”
Source : John Herschel (2014). “Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews”, p.13, Cambridge University Press
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“Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has begun to escape. Civilization might be defined indeed as the steps in his escape.”
Source : Elsie Clews Parsons (1997). “Fear and Conventionality”, p.37, University of Chicago Press
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“Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.”
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“Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.”
Source : Guy Debord, Ken Knabb (2003). “Complete cinematic works: scripts, stills, documents”, A K Pr Distribution
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“Sometimes sorrow, sometimes joy. But beneath it all remember the innate perfection of your life unfolding. That is the secret of unreasonable happiness.”
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“Why are we importing all these highbrow plays like `Amadeus'? I could have told you Mozart was a jerk for nothing.”
Source : Ian Shoales (1985). “I gotta go: the commentary of Ian Shoales”, Perigee
