“True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.”

Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.

Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.

This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.

….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.

In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.

But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

Many dishes bring many diseases.

Chance is a second master.

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.

Human nature craves novelty.

Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

It normally takes decades to build a brand because it takes decades to penetrate the gray matter in between your ears.

Before Alar, there was EDB, a potent human carcinogen allowed in the grain supply and other food for more than a decade after it was known to be dangerous.

It normally takes decades to build a brand… It’s the forgetting of the old truth that allows a person to accept a new truth.

Janis Joplin has one of the most distinguished female voices of the decade. It is a voice that has been aged in Southern Comfort and cured with Kahlua and milk.

One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations.

I will do my best to reduce the price of oil to expand the life span of oil at least for two decades or three decades.