For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?

 

[the GOAT]

It is true that Fourier had the opinion that the principal aim of mathematics was public utility and explanation of natural phenomena; but a philosopher like him should have known that the sole end of science is the honor of the human mind, and that under this title a question about numbers is worth as much as a question about the system of the world.

 

[the GOAT]

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

 

[the GOAT]

What's real in politics is what the voters decide is real.

 

[the GOAT]

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

 

[the GOAT]

Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.

 

[the GOAT]

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

 

[the GOAT]

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

 

[the GOAT]

An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise to the stimulus of sense and appetite.

 

[the GOAT]

Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

 

[the GOAT]

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

 

[the GOAT]

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

 

[the GOAT]

Truth's like a fire, and will burn through and be seen.

 

[the GOAT]

If thou art rich, thou'rt poor; For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee.

 

[the GOAT]

Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus

 

[the GOAT]

I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows Quite canopied over with luscious woodbine With sweet muskroses and with eglantine. There sleeps Titania sometime of the night Lulled in these flowers with dances and delights.

 

[the GOAT]

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence.

 

[the GOAT]

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

 

[the GOAT]

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

 

[the GOAT]

For a ploy hatched in hell, don't expect angels for witnesses.