Tim Edison

“Go mortals, sweat, pant, toil, range the lands and seas to pile up riches you cannot keep; glory that will not last. The life we lead is a sleep; whatever we do, dreams. Only death breaks the sleep and wakes us from dreaming. I wish I could have woken before this.”
― Petrarch

“Despite its lack of size, the bee makes fine honey.”
― Einhard, Two Lives of Charlemagne

“There is a difference between right and wrong, always was and always will be, but each man's wrong and each man's right are different.”
― Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country

“In short, not only was it surprising to be greeted in person with such enthusiastic words, but it was doubly surprising when the person reciting these words displayed the same kind of disengagement as, say, the checkout clerk who utters the words 'Have a nice day' while her expression indicates that it's really a matter of total indifference to her whether you drop dead in the parking lot outside ten seconds from now.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King