Danny

“A system of cells interlinked within
Cells interlinked within cells interlinked
Within one stem. And dreadfully distinct
Against the dark, a tall white fountain played.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

“Tell me not in mournful numbers, “Life is but an empty dream, For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.” Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; “Dust thou art, to dust returnest,” Was not spoken of the soul.... Lives of great men all remind us, We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints in the sands of time.... Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.”
― Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

“The writings of the Transcendentalists affirm some of the best qualities characteristic of American civilization: self-reliance, a willingness to question authority, a quest for spiritual nourishment. Their writings, even today, urge us to independent reflection in the face of fads, conformity, blind partisanship, and mindless consumerism.”
― Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

“In War: Resolution,
In Defeat: Defiance,
In Victory: Magnanimity
In Peace: Good Will.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War: The Nobel Prize-Winning History of World War II