Nicholas Shapley

“Dont grieve any more, see I am coming up with you everyday now, and if there is anything the matter, you can come to me.”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
― Mark Twain

“For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Be thankful you’re healthy.” “Be bitter you’re not going to stay that way.” “Be glad you’re even alive.” “Be furious you’re going to die.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22