Wit & Wisdom

“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone.”

Aldous Huxley, quoted in The Wall Street Journal

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.”

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Joyce Carol Oates, quoted in the Vancouver, Wash., Columbian

“Industry pays debts, despair increases them.”

Benjamin Franklin, quoted in Forbes.com

“The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper.”

Biologist E.O. Wilson, quoted in NPR.org

“The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, ‘The trouble with this country is....’”

Sinclair Lewis, quoted in the Associated Press

“Tolerance is the virtue of a man without conviction.”

G.K. Chesterton, quoted in the Sioux City, Iowa, Journal

“We all have our time machines. Those that take us back are memories. And those that carry us forward are dreams.”

H.G. Wells, quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle