We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness.

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow

Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

The shortest distance between two people is a smile.