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"Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons." – Will Cuppy, "The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody" (1950)
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." – Thomas de Quincey, "Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts", in Blackwood's Magazine, November 1839.
"Not to the present is our hour confined, The great and shadowy future is assigned To be the glorious empire of the mind. The past was once the future, and it wrought In…
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