"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant." (Plato)

“I don’t want anyone to challenge my right to sound completely mad.” (Duke Ellington)

"Once the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place." (Philip Roth)

Enlightenment is a moving target.

“All music is folk music; I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.” (Louis Armstrong)

"The Almighty has His own purposes. 'Woe unto the world because of offenses for it must needs be that offenses come but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.' If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which in the providence of God must needs come but which having continued through His appointed time He now wills to remove and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him. Fondly do we hope—fervently do we pray—that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago so still it must be said: 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.'" (Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1864)

“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.” (Mae West)

“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry, and a hundred in dress.” (Joyce Carey)

"Death is the last and best reward for a life well lived." (Bob Weir)

“Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.” (Edna Woolman Chase)

Philophile, n. Lover of ‘philes.’

“Ignorance is no excuse, it’s the real thing.” (Irene Peter)

Mark Zuckerberg kills goats with laser guns.

"Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet." (Anonymous)

"I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world." (Mary Todd Lincoln)

It's hard to put the coke spoon to your nose when you're doing the Downward-facing Dog.

“Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.” (Will Rogers)

"But good writers have a reason for doing things the way they do them, and if you tinker with their work, taking it upon yourself to neutralize a slightly eccentric usage or zap a comma or sharpen the emphasis of something that the writer was deliberately keeping obscure, you are not helping. In my experience, the really great writers enjoy the editorial process. They weigh queries, and they accept or reject them for good reasons. They are not defensive. The whole point of having things read before publication is to test their effect on a general reader. You want to make sure when you go out there that the tag on the back of your collar isn't poking up—unless, of course, you are deliberately wearing your clothes inside out." (Mary Norris, Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen)

“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Saint Paul)

"If you aren’t getting happier as you get older, you’re doing it wrong." (Naval Ravikant)