History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.