The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.

A market is never saturated with a good product but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution from which little was expected produced much, but the French Revolution from which much was expected produced little.

Without discipline there's no life at all.

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to.

A blocked path also offers guidance.

Well you don't get to do things that other children get to do having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel but in taking away some fire.

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation the wonder of science scientific ways of thinking and the history of scientific ideas rather than laboratory experience.

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