William Wycherley

Tear thyself from delay.

The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think – yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

All those moments are alive in us today. We may not visit them anymore, very often, but we carry them in our DNA, our blood, our bones; informing the breadth and beauty of who we now are; our lesson to be lived.

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the moon. You don’t have to become my finger, nor do you have to worship my finger. You have to forget my finger, and look at where it is pointing.

Give, even if you only have little.