“All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope.”
Tip: press → for another quote, C to copy, S to share.
He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.
Nothing succeeds like success.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.