The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.

I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.

It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .