In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.
Mark TwainIt is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark TwainEvery improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad is another; the telephone and all those things are merely symbols which represent ideas. An andiron, a wash-tub, is the result of an idea that did not exist before.
Mark Twain