In one book, your father is a hero. In another book, he is a monster. The men who don’t have books written about them have it easier. - Jaroslav Kalfař

The greatness of a nation is in its symbols, its gestures, in doing things that are unprecedented. It’s why the Americans are falling behind—they built a nation on the idea of doing new things, and now they’d rather sit and pray that the world won’t make them adapt too much.

His presence was soothing, but his existence incomprehensible.

Thus we never see the true State of our Condition, till it is illustrated to us by its Contraries; nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.