The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. – Aldous Huxley
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. – Aldous Huxley
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the wills freedom after it. – Aldous Huxley
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden…. It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks