What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

keep it simple, stupid.

A stick and a string with a fly at one end and a fool at the other.

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

Dancing in the chequer'd shade.

All human history attests That happiness for man,--the hungry sinner!-- Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner.

Put your creed in your deed.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.

Each year, it seems, larger and more daunting mountains of text rise from the lush lowlands of visual reproduction.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.

Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee.

Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion.

All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.

But thou, O daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.