“He may have been a trifle wild.”

“Oh, God! That bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!”

“In self-defence, you know, all life eventually accommodates itself to its environment, and human life is no exception.”

“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutterhammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without asmuch as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and firstblow it will split in two, and I know it was not that lastblow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

“It is often idle to attempt to oppose ignorance and absurdity by such feeble instruments as truth and reason, and the wisest managers of mankind have generally been most successful when their plan has been to counteract one folly by means of the influence of another.”

“Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.” Jacob Bronowski in Science and Human Values”

“For it is the young tree grown out of the old root which shall illuminate what the old tree has been in its wonders.”