I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. - Joseph Addison

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

On the fifth day of the moon, which, according to the custom of my forefathers, I always keep holy, after having washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdad, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer.