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• Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objec
  hat of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope. -- Leigh Hu...
• Those who bestow too much application of trifling things, become generally incapable of great ones.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Those cave paintings are wonderful, but like everything we know, they are not too wonderful to be true.
  It is their reality that gives them wonder, and while there will never come a time when some of us will not wish for more than we can have, the happiest of us will wait confidently for other tangible finds....
• All ceremonies are, in themselves, very silly thing
  but yet a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks of manners and decency, which would be too often broken in upon, if it were not for that defense, which keeps the enemy at a proper distance....
• Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Address on laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, 1825, p....
• We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilization will irretrievably succumb
  or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the great Germanic nation....
• The true, strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• My mind is willing, my checkbook is weak.
• Sanity is the trademark of a weak mind. -- Mark Harrold