“Free lunches don’t nourish.”

Charles Murray In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government

“A man’s character is his destiny.”

Heraclitus

“[Life] is sweet to all of us. Even the beggar hesitates to cross a rotting bridge.”

Charlie Chan in Earl Derr Biggers The Black Camel

“To me the man who is breaking the Sabbath is the man who does not play games on Sunday.”

G.K. Chesterton in The Man Who Was Thursday

“Don’t worry about feeling overwhelmed. If you just manage to do two or three thousand chores a day, eventually you’ll get to about half of them.” John Robson

“Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.”

Immanuel Kant

“in reading the history of the two first Kings of the house of Tudor, we imagine ourselves reading the relation given by Tacitus, of Tiberius and the Roman Senate.”

Jean Louis De Lolme The Constitution of England [if, that is, we have any idea what the former did or the latter said]

“Reality is tricky”

Thomas Sowell