What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Henry Stanley Haskins, Meditations in Wall Street, 1940, originally published an
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. – Honore de Balzac
When I speak of cycles, I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate. – Brian Ferneyhough