In science, if an idea is not falsifiable, it is not that it is wrong, it is that we cannot determine if it is wrong, and thus it is not even wrong.
We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Every man is the son of his own works.
Was he still, somehow, watching over her?
I started out in theatre and I definitely have wanted to add extra musical elements to my music with both imagery and text.
In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his hip, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford.