…for here there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life. – Rainer Maria Rilke, “Archaic Torso of Apollo,” about a sculpture, translated by

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them. – John B. Gough