The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'. — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image