Caserias

“All ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the gardener with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing.”
― Mark Twain

“An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch