Shallow Men Believe In Luck.

Talent Is Commonly Developed At The Expense Of Character.

Each Man Reserves To Himself Alone The Right Of Being Tedious.

The Longest Wave Is Quickly Lost In The Sea.

I Am Constrained Every Moment To Acknowledge A Higher Origin For Events Than The Will I Call Mine.

Numbers Serve To Discipline Rhetoric. Without Them It Is Too Easy To Follow Flights Of Fancy, To Ignore The World As It Is And To Remold It Nearer The Heart's Desire.