In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.

In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for ever outside the gates of the Paradise of Perfection, but who nevertheless will give the very best there is in them because the work they do means more to them than anything else in this world.

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.