You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it’s attributed to a whole raft of wits.

It’s the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.

Rumors had their own classic epidemiology. Each started with a single germinating event. Information spread from that point, mutating and interbreeding—a conical mass of threads, expanding into the future from the apex of their common...

If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail upon a sea where shipwrecks are a common occurrence and there are often...