“The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic and carrying innumerable passengers. … It seems safe to say that such ideas are wholly visionary.” — Harvard College Observatory astronomer William Henry Pickering, 1908
“By appreciation we make excellence in others our own property.” — Voltaire
“Most men employ the first part of life to make the rest miserable.” — Jean de la Bruyère
“My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the means of believing in a thousand times as much as there is to believe in, judging by experience.” — Augustus De Morgan
“As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.” — Benjamin Disraeli
“If you start to take Vienna, take Vienna.” — Napoleon
“It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.” — Thoreau
“Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess.” — Samuel Johnson
“Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg