If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country. – James Buchanan to Abraham Lincoln, 1861
If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe. – Simone Weil
We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses — secret senses, sixth senses, if you will — equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded. – Oliver Sacks
