All that it receives from knowledge is the series of motives by which it successively develops its nature and makes itself cognisable or visible; but the will itself, as something that lies beyond time, and so long as it exists at all, never changes.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; On Human Nature by Arthur Schopenhauer

—Cut thin hand-sections with a sharp scalpel, dehydrate if necessary, and mount in Canada balsam.
— from Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale