Thoughtful Thursday

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
- Thomas Paine

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
- Robert A. Heinlein

"A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants; and secondly, how much more unhappy he might be than he really is."
- Joseph Addison

"It is better to live rich than to die rich."
- Samuel Johnson

"The brain is a three-pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light years across."
- Marian C. Diamond

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
- Richard Feynman

"Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence."
- Alfred Billings Street