One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French b
Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children. – Wilfrid Laurier
Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers