"After silence, that which comes nearer
to expressing the unexpressible is music"

"The only completely consistent people are the dead"

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history
is the most important of all the lessons of history"

"To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something
-something very important, if happens to be the starting time of our daily train.
To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was
without significance - did not even exist. In inventing
the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part
inventors of time."

"An unexciting truth may be eclipsed
by a thrilling lie"