"Time is to eternity as an image is to its exemplar, and those things which are temporal bear a resemblance to those things which are eternal."

“Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.”

“If deep change depended solely on outside intervention it would never happen.”

“What one fool can do another can.”

Source : Silvanus P. Thompson (1914). “Calculus Made Easy: Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus”

“Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.”

“I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.”

Source : "In truth" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.

“Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.”

“Knowledge is power as well as fame.”

Source : Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.410

“I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.”