Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. Henry Kissinger, Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979

The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether. Steve Martini

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest to reach true perfection. E.C. Stedman

Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we...

A man who works beyond the surface of things,though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth. Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry...

Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it. Charles Babbage

It has just been twenty-three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty-three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting...

A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs. Clifton Fadiman