If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it! – Hannah Whithall Smith
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden. – Abraham Cowley, The Garden, 1666
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. – Jules Verne