Michael Alderson

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

“Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”
― Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche