Adam Morrone

“When the possibilities themselves had accordingly turned stale, when the secret of the gods had grown faint, had perhaps even quite evaporated, that, and that only, was failure. It wouldn’t have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything.”
― Henry James, Beast in the Jungle

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
― Mark Twain

“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
― Socrates

“It was the truth, vivid and monstrous, that all the while he had waited the wait was itself his portion.”
― Henry James, The Beast in the Jungle