Luke

“Walt Whitman, who ardently followed the Overland Campaign: “When did [Grant] ever turn back? He was not that sort; he could no more turn back than time! . . . Grant was one of the inevitables; he always arrived; he was invincible as a law: he never bragged—often seemed about to be defeated when he was in fact on the eve of a tremendous victory”
― Ron Chernow, Grant

“Happiness is only for the honest-that’s a law that runs through matter as undetectable as gravity”
― Thomas Alva Edison

“Me? Oh, but I am quite resigned to taking second place in the shadow of my husband. I am humbly aware that the wife of a great man has to be contented with reflected glory—don’t you think so, Miss Taggart?” “No,” said Dagny, “I don’t.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Free scientific inquiry? The first adjective is redundant.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged