This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.
Lionel TrillingA great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
Samuel RichardsonGreat men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson