• Freeman Dyson

    The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming.

  • Horace Mann

    A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering cold iron.

  • Edgar Allan Poe

    A Dream

    In visions of the dark night
    I have dreamed of joy departed-
    But a waking dream of life and light
    Hath left me broken-hearted.

    Ah! what is not a dream by day
    To him whose eyes are cast
    On things around him with a ray
    Turned back upon the past?

    That holy dream- that holy dream,
    While all the world were chiding,
    Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
    A lonely spirit guiding.

    What though that light, thro’ storm and night,
    So trembled from afar-
    What could there be more purely bright
    In Truth’s day-star?

  • P G Wodehouse

    He trusted neither of them as far as he could spit, and he was a poor spitter, lacking both distance and control.