Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged. – Claude M. Bristol

The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction. – Nassau William Senior

It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you dont trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit. – W. G. Sebald