But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near. (Andrew Marvell)

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. (Samuel Johnson)

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. (Robert Pirsig)

I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. (E. E. Cummings)

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. (H. G. Wells)

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. (Friedrich von Schiller)

Life is pleasant.Death is peaceful.It’s the transition that’s troublesome. (Isaac Asimov)

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. (H. H. Munro (Saki))

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. (Rene Descartes, Discours de la Methode)

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. (Thomas Henry Huxley)

It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. (Carl Sagan)