But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr.
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. – Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversation: Diogenes and Plato
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a mans name live for thousands of years. – Denis Diderot