Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization."-Vergere

No lesson is truly learned until it has been purchased with pain

Before one can learn truth, one must unlearn lies.

To die hating them, that was freedom.

Observation is a dying art.

I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

You know what, the thing that breaks my heart is that there's no way I can answer it without hurting someone on either side.

The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.

[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

I'm not running like Colonel [Bernie] Sanders. All reputations matter.

I wonder if our names determine our destiny, or if destiny leads us to choose certain names.