J.C. Shepard

“A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.”
― William Gibson, Zero History

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.”
― G.K. Chesterton