Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard.
Edwin A. AbbottDistress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you.
Edwin A. AbbottLearn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.
Edwin A. AbbottYet I exist in the hope that these memoirs... may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to limited Dimensionality.
Edwin A. Abbott