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• Virginity can be lost by a thought. -- St. Jerome (340?-420)
• You will generally find that everything is defiled with usurious contrac
  hat those very persons have got together the greater part of their money by sheer rapine, who nevertheless assert themselves so confidently to be pure from all contagion of unjust gain....
• There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust. St. Francis De Sale
• It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
  And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true....
• Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all othe
  it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by false appreciation of their own strength....
• The agreement of so many kinds of animals in a certain common structure
  which seems to be fundamental not only in their skeletons, but also in the arrangement of the other parts - so that a wonderfully simple typical form, by the shortening and lengthening of some parts, and by the suppression and development of others, might be able to produce an immense variety of species - allows a ray of hope, however faint, to enter our minds, that here perhaps some result may be obtained, by the application of the principle of the mechanism of nature (without which there can be no natural science in general)....
• It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
  -- Jerome K. Jerome...
• It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
  -- Jerome Klapka Jerome...
• Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of the patron may govern the scheduled completion of the task, but it cannot govern the actual completion.
  An omelette, promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely....