That unlettered small-knowing soul. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

What is the most important thing to learn in chemistry? Never lick the spoon.

All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.

The greatest luxury of riches is, that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.

He Greek and Latin speaks with greater ease Than hogs eat acorns, and tame pigeons peas.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

Never overlook wallflower at dance; may be dandelion in grass.

How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

Vision that looks inward becomes duty. Vision that looks outward becomes aspiration. Vision that looks upward becomes faith.

I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.

The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby.

Wind buffs up empty bladders, opinion, fools.

Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past.

Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.

The ancient sage who concocted the maxim, Know Thyself might have added, Don't Tell Anyone!

Why should we fear; and what? The laws? They all are armed in virtue's cause; And aiming at the self-same end, Satire is always virtue's friend.