In the midst of pain and urgent trouble we can not realize the supreme happiness of being loved — sweetest and deepest of all meditations…. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens
The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge. – Edward Levi
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. – Anaïs Nin
