Science is the systematic classification of experience.
George Henry Lewes
Choice strengthens all.
Neal Prescot
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.
Robert Owen
Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
Herbert Spencer
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
Harriet Martineau
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic
Henry James
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule
Charles Dickens
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Friedrich Engels
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
Wilkie Collins
The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.
Mikhail Strabo
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
George Eliot
The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.