"The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary."

“A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.”

“To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.”

Source : "Pictures of Private Life, Vol. 2". Book by Sarah Stickney Ellis, 1835.

“Efforts depend on individuals, but results rely on mere conditions.”

“The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.”

“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.”

Source : Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.34

“Gravitational systems are the ashes of prior electrical systems.”

“I've been exploring what works for me, and what I enjoy. It's about diet for me as well as training. So finding something you enjoy, making sure it works for you and sticking at it would be my advice.”

“In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.”