Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. – Francis Bacon
What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia – something that resists rapid change. – Simon Travaglia
[P]ie… the secret of our strength as a nation and the foundation of our industrial supremacy… – “Editorial Comment: Hints in Gastronomy,” Current Literature: A Magazine of Cont