Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.
Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.
I like being myself. Myself and nasty.
Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities.