Jason Hackwith

“Now, the linden, it turns out, is a radical tree, as different from an oak as a woman is from a man. It's the bee tree, the tree of peace, whose tonics and teas can cure every kind of tension and anxiety - a tree that cannot mistaken for any other, for alone in all the catalog of a hundred thousand earthly species, its flowers and tiny hard fruit hand down from surfboard bracts whose sole perserve purpose seems to be to state its own singularity. The lindens will come for her, starting with this ambush. But the full adoption will take years.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“He that pays for work before it’s done has but a pennyworth for two pence.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Success has ruined many a man.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack