War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

By experience", says Roger Ascham, "we find out a short way by a long wandering." Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?

She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.

I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.