“Packing the basket was not quite such pleasant work as unpacking the basket. It never is.”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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“Then I defy you, stars!”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“It's never the wrong time to call on Toad. Early or late he's always the same fellow. Always good-tempered, always glad to see you, always sorry when you go!”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.”

― William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost

“most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.”

― Linus Torvalds,

“The aim of life is self-development.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death, rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses—bound for dust—mortal”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“One can begin so many things with a new person! —even begin to be a better man.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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