When This Blows Over

This intelligence-testing business reminds me of the way
they used to weigh hogs in Texas. They would get a long
plank, put it over a cross-bar and somehow tie the hog on
one end of the plank. They’d search all around till they
found a stone that would balance the weight of the hog and
they’d put that on the other end of the plank. Then they’d
guess the weight of the stone.
-John Dewey
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion.
It is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the
great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps
with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good humor may be said to be one of the best articles of
dress one can wear in society.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Facts do not cease to exist because they are
ignored.
- Alduous Huxley