I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.