This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.
Lionel TrillingGreat achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon HillA great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.
Richard Flanagan