In Philosophy, As In Politics, The Longest

Wherever Men Do Things, Other Men Will Arise Who Will Explain To Them How Things Should Be Done.

Inquiry Is Fatal To Certainty.

And Last Are The Few Whose Delight Is In Meditation And Understanding; Who Yearn Not For Goods, Nor For Victory, But For Knowledge; Who Leave Both Market And Battlefield To Lose Themselves In The Quiet Clarity Of Secluded Thought; Whose Will Is A Light Rather Than A Fire, Whose Haven Is Not Power But Truth: These Are The Men Of Wisdom, Who Stand Aside Unused By The World.

The Love We Have In Our Youth Is Superficial Compared To The Love That An Old Man Has For His Old Wife.

Civilization Exists By Geological Consent, Subject To Change Without Notice.