Terence Rossall

“Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.”
― Aristotle, The Philosophy of Aristotle

“For the want of a nail the shoe was lost,
For the want of a shoe the horse was lost,
For the want of a horse the rider was lost,
For the want of a rider the battle was lost,
For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost,
And all for the want of a horseshoe-nail.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.”
― Thomas Henry Huxley

“The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.”
― Malcolm Muggeridge