One's country, Vision, Happiness

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not its institutions or its officeholders.
~ Mark Twain

A clear vision is usually assumed and rarely communicated.
~ Unknown

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
~ John Locke

Science, Reading and Knowledge

"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth."

~ Jules Verne

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."

~ John Locke

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know."

~ Mark Twain