What one has, one ought to use, and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

For such a numerous host Fled not in silence through the frighted deep With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless chimes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.

fools rush in...

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

Evil witnesses are eyes and ears of men, if they have souls that do not understand their language.

Will is the dynamic soul-force.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there light is from within.

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all The other feigned to be. The flippant Frenchman speaks: I weep; And Shakespeare weeps with me.

One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.

Flirtation...Attention without intention.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die

Who opened the cattleguard?

Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.