“Ignorance is bold, and knowledge is reserved.” — Thucydides

“When we have provided against cold, hunger and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.” — Seneca

“Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music, or pictures, or architecture, or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.” — Samuel Butler

“The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf. It’s almost a law.” — H.G. Wells

“Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.” — Thomas Jefferson

“The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.” — Daniel Boorstin

“If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.” — Montesquieu

“I used to wake up at 4 a.m. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion it must be an allergy to consciousness.” — James Thurber