Ed Stapleton

“As is true of most men who wield their power like a weapon, Conkling was widely feared, slavishly obeyed, and secretly despised.”
― Candice Millard, Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

“Danny the whole idea of proving that people weren’t rational felt a bit like proving that people didn’t have fur. Obviously people were not rational, in any meaningful sense of that term.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“Whether the lightning bewildered me and made me take a false turn, I cannot tell; for the hardest thing to understand, in intellectual as well as moral mistakes, is—how we came to go wrong.”
― George MacDonald, The Portent and Other Stories

“He was a bad son, a bad husband and a bad king, but a gallant and splendid soldier.”
― John Man, Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire