Prof. Barus' Retirement dinner speech, Brown University (1926) as quoted by in One of the 999 about to be Forgotten: Memoirs of Carl Barus, 1865-1935 (2005) ed., Axel W.-O. Scmidt.
Context: [L]et me refer to my original work. Naturally, if a student has been hammering away ever since 1979... he must have accumulated a lot of litter, much of which, perhaps, should have long since been swept away. But the fates are not to be bribed either by pother or importunity. Out of 1,000 men who are called, one (probably the ratio is much smaller) is chosen to do glorious scientific work. The others? Their lot is failure. They may be equally or even more industrious, they may have equal or even greater brain power—the other 999 exist merely to make the illustrious one in whom they culminate, possible. After that, the world will say to each in words of poetic brevity: "The man has done his duty, the man can go." And they do, pretty quickly, to a gentler lethe, flowing between the banks of amaranth and asphodel.
Gentlemen, I am one of the 999 about to be forgotten.
“Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.”
Ainsi les postes éminents rendent les grands hommes encore plus grands, et les petits beaucoup plus petits.
Aphorism 95
Les Caractères (1688), De l'Homme
Source: Code Name Verity
1960s, The Medium is the Message (1967)
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, p. 34
“Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.”
Source: Martin Eden (1909), Ch. XXXII
The new Vicar Apostolic of Quetta places his office under the protection of Our Lady http://www.fides.org/en/news/69326-ASIA_PAKISTAN_The_new_Vicar_Apostolic_of_Quetta_places_his_office_under_the_protection_of_Our_Lady (4 January 2021)
Source: Art applied to industry: a series of lectures, 1865, p. 2
In an interview with Patricia Rickels, as quoted in John Lowe (1995) Conversations with Ernest Gaines, University Press of Mississippi, p. 131
