Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul! Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Chapter 34

How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other! Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Chapter 19

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you. Orson Scott Card, Treasure Box

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.,...

The sane appear as strange to the mad as the mad to the sane Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw, Act II

Human beings cannot stand too much reality. Thomas S. Eliot, Four Quartets

Not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you, has shaken me. Friedrich Nietzsce, Beyond Good and Evil

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. Voltaire, Zadig