Certitude Is Not The Test Of Certainty.

But The Moment You Turn A Corner You See Another Straight Stretch Ahead And There Comes Some Further Challenge To Your Ambition.

History Has To Be Rewritten Because History Is The Selection Of Those Threads Of Causes Or Antecedents That We Are Interested In.

Be Willing To Commit Yourself To A Course, Perhaps A Long And Hard One, Without Being Able To Foresee Exactly Where You Will Come Out.

As For The Excellent Little Wretches Who Grow Up In What They Are Taught, With Never A Scruple Or A Query, ... They Signify Nothing In The Intellectual Life Of The Race.

Fame Is The Scentless Sunflower, With Gaudy Crown Of Gold; But Friendship Is The Rose, With Sweets In Every Fold.