Science, great, mighty and in the end unerring, science has fallen into many errors - errors which have been fortunate and useful rather than otherwi… - Jules Verne

Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares. -Priest

an energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.

Literature is dead, my boy' the uncle replied. 'Look at these empty rooms, and these books buried in their dust; no one reads anymore; I am the guardian of a cemetery here, and exhumation is forbidden.' . . . 'My boy, never speak of literature, never speak of art! Accept the situation as it is! You are Monsieur Boutardins ward before being your Uncle Huguenin's nephew!