It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts. - Thomas Carlyle

If something be not done, something will do itself one day, and in a fashion that will please nobody

Consider the great elements of human enjoyment, the attainments and possessions that exalt man's life to its present height, and see what part of these he owes to institutions, to Mechanism of any kind; and what to the instinctive, unbounded force, which Nature herself lent him.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.