"If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called "Damn It"." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.