What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. – Samuel Johnson
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. – Samuel Johnson
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. – Samuel Johnson
Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by St