Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it, hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. - Thomas Love Peacock,

The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. Forever singing, as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.

The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which a good thing may pass over unobserved, or be lost among commissions of bankrupt.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, ;or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

Yes,--rather plunge me back in pagan night, And take my chance with Socrates for bliss, Than be the Christian of a faith like this, Which builds on heavenly cant its earthly sway, And in a convert mourns to lose a prey.

crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them as so many anatomies.

America is the only country in the world where the poor have a parking problem.

Silence gives consent.

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.