It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. – Honore de Balzac
Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery. – R. Buckminster Fuller
Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs are… – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889
