Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to

the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.
Rudolf Otto

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
George Canning

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
Henry James

You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.
William Kirby

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
Thomas Carlyle