Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and neve — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start. ♥ 2 The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour. ♥ 1 It is not length of life, but depth of life. Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. Abraham Lincoln I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. Albert Einstein All great ideas are dangerous. Oscar Wilde The cruellest lies are often told in silence. Virginibus Puerisque (1881) title essay, pt. 4 Robert Louis Stevenson