You will never see these lights Glowing in your nights If you don't know And there are roses growing in the snow. - Nicolas Chamfort

Ce que j'ai appris, je l'ai oublié ; ce que je sais, je l'ai inventé.

Few people are prepared to use their reason without fear or favor, or bold enough to apply it relentlessly to every moral, political and social issue: to kings and ministers, to men in high places, to the philosophers, to absolutely every scientific and artistic principle. And if we don't, we're doomed to remain mediocre.

I asked M.—why he'd turned down the offer of a particular post. “I didn't want a post where the office is more important than the holder of it,” he replied.