[Ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.
Robert Burton
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
Honor de Balzac
Too close a view may interfere with one's grasp of an overall problem or concept.
Anthony Stafford Beer
So I pray the gods may hear even me, and let my whispered yes tower above my shouted no and mount all the way to their fivefold realm. As I would be heard, so I hear you.
Lois McMaster Bujold