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• Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises.
  The truth depends on, and is only arrived at by a legitimate dedcution from all the facts which are truly material....
• Life is made up of marble and mud. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
  -- Leo Tolstoy...
• The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained, in free and easy chat with others.
  -- William Matthew...
• No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.
• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.
  -- Nathaniel Hawthorne...
• In any formula, constants (especially those obtained from handbooks) are to be treated as variables.