A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.  -Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 – 1986)

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins. -Henry David Thoreau

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. –George Washington

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what.  I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. –George Washington

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.                                          –Laurence J. Peter