Jesse Young

“There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers.”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

“Precious things are for those that can prize them.”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“The Crow lifted up her head and began to caw her best, but the moment she opened her mouth the piece of cheese fell to the ground, only to be snapped up by Master Fox. "That will do," said he. "That was all I wanted. In exchange for your cheese I will give you a piece of advice for the future ."Do not trust flatterers.”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then come languor and decay.”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine