direction and vigour
Source: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 138
“I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in.”
Edward Teller (1908–2003) Hungarian-American nuclear physicist
As quoted in The Martians of Science : Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century (2006) by István Hargittai, p. 251
“For what is worth in anything
But so much money as 't will bring?”
Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
Canto I, line 465
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
Letter to J. G. Lockhart (c. 16 June 1830), in H. J. C. Grierson (ed.), Letters of Sir Walter Scott, Vol. II (1936), as reported in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999), p. 652
Tench Coxe (1755–1824) American economist
Source: http://www.friesian.com/quotes.htm Pennsylvania Gazette], Feb. 20, 1788
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/41022229/, archived image from newspapers.com, Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788 page 2 column 2
Michael Shaara book The Killer Angels
General Robert E. Lee, Part IV, CH 5: Longsteet, p.361
The Killer Angels (1974)
“An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot”
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
1790s, Agrarian Justice (1797)
Source: Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings
Context: An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot; it will succeed where diplomatic management would fall: it is neither the Rhine, the Channel, nor the ocean that can arrest its progress: it will march on the horizon of the world, and it will conquer.
Virginia Woolf book Jacob's Room
Variant: But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.
Source: Jacob's Room
Ferdinand Foch (1851–1929) French soldier and military theorist
To Alvin C. York, on his extraordinary capture of over a hundred enemy troops behind enemy lines, as quoted in the Preface of Sergeant York And His People (1922) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19117 by Sam K. Cowan
