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"Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way." »Hosea Ballou
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"The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes." »Jonathan Swift
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"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere." »Jane Austen
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"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere." »Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
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"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end." »H.L. Mencken
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"Humans live best when each has a place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person." »Frank Herbert, Dune
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"First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand." »Robert Cecil Day Lewis
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"Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person." »Frank Herbert, Dune
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"Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future." »Bourke Cockran
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"I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves." »Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
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