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• One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience.
  But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals. -- Edward Abbey...
• The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals.
  Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose, for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics....
• There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and this is not learning from experience.
  -- Laurence J. Pete...
• DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined.
  .. to strengthen each other... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories....
• There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
  -- William Jame...