Reasonable people

“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.” – GB Shaw (quoted by __ Hill, the founder of Proj Gutenberg)

Under the roof

Every roof is agreeable to the eye until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women and hard-eyed husbands and deluges of Lethe. — Emerson, Experience.

Fatherhood

Few children are truly like their father; lo, the more part are worse, yet a few are better than the sire. — Athena to Telemachus, Bk. 2 Od.

Childhood

There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. — Graham Greene.