Quotes

You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute,
And now and then stab as occasion serves.Spencer junior in "Edward II"Christopher Marlowe, 1564-1593

Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1958), chapter XIOliver Wendell Holmes Sr., 1809-1894

Though human ingenuity may make various inventions [...] it will never devise any inventions more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than Nature does [...]Notebooks, XIV (1508-1518)Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519