Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. - René Descartes

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, and which they revealed to us none but their best thoughts

thought I had said enough respecting them to show that there is nothing observable in the heavens or stars of our system that must not, or at least may not appear precisely alike in those of the system which I described.