Some men write their lives to save themselves from ennui, careless of the amount they inflict on their readers. - Allan G Bromley

the greatest obstacles to the acquisition of knowledge — inasmuch as he possesses the consciousness that he does not know — and he has the moral courage to avow it.

Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.

No motion impressed by natural causes, or by human agency, is ever obliterated.