"The unpleasant events you are passing from..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object”

“What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?”

“One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.”

“Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.”

“Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.”

“An ounce of heart knowledge is worth a ton of head learning.”

“Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day.”

“Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.”

“I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.”