There Is No Greater Impediment To Progress

There Are People Who Possess Not So Much Genius As A Certain Talent For Perceiving The Desires Of The Century, Or Even Of The Decade, Before It Has Done So Itself.

There Can Hardly Be A Stranger Commodity In The World Than Books. Printed By People Who Don't Understand Them; Sold By People Who Don't Understand Them; Bound, Criticized And Read By People Who Don't Understand Them; And Now Even Written By People Who Don't Understand Them.

With Prophecies The Commentator Is Often A More Important Man Than The Prophet.

The Human Tendency To Regard Little Things As Important Has Produced Very Many Great Things.

I Made The Journey To Knowledge Like Dogs Who Go For Walks With Their Masters, A Hundred Times Forward And Backward Over The Same Territory; And When I Arrived I Was Tired.