The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes. – Aubrey Menen
But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think were just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship. – David Herbert Donald
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. – Aldous Huxley