Eric

“There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.”
― Charles Dickens

“Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
― John Steinbeck