All saints can do miracles, but few of them can ke — Mark Twain

All generalizations are false, including this one. The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen . The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. Edmund Wilson (ed.) The Crack-Up (1945) ‘NoteBooks E’ F. Scott Fitzgerald We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand. Albert Einstein There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. George Bernard Shaw Well begun is half done. Aristóteles