Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

George Herbert · Jacula Prudentum, 290

Poverty is no sin.

George Herbert · Jacula Prudentum, 844

Wit’s an unruly engine, wildly striking Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer.

George Herbert · The Temple. The Church Porch, st. 41

Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.

George Herbert · Jacula Prudentum, 187

Participating in the competition of the big brains has always seemed to me an awful type of slavery, no less evil than the passion for money or power.

Albert Einstein · The source reads: “I no longer need to take part in the competition of the big brains. Participating in the process has always seemed to me to be an awful type of slavery no less evil than the passion for money or power.” · To Paul Ehrenfest, 5 May 1927, on the race for academic promotion.

Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.

Charles Lamb

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

Thomas Drummond

“Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.”

“Poverty is no sin.”

“Wit’s an unruly engine, wildly striking Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer.”

“Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.”

“Participating in the competition of the big brains has always seemed to me an awful type of slavery, no less evil than the passion for money or power.”

“Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.”

“Property has its duties as well as its rights.”

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