Forbidden fruit is sweet.

There's something in't More than my father's skill, which was the great'st Of his profession, that his good receipt Shall for my legacy be sanctified By th' luckiest stars in heaven; and would your honor But give me leave to thy success, I'd venture The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure By such a day and hour.

Rhetoric is nothing, but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance spells disaster, and to whom unlimited energy means unlimited power for war and destruction, there is an ominous cloud in the distance though at present it be no bigger than a man's hand.

A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise or profit.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward.

Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux.

But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all.

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

What wound did ever heal but my degrees?

He that can have patience can have what he will.

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

There is no original truth, only original error.

The graduate with a Science degree asks: "Why does it work?" The graduate with an Engineering degree asks: "How does it work?" The graduate with an Accounting degree asks: "How much will it cost?" The graduate with a Liberal Arts degree asks: "Do you want fries with that?".

Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 Read and read again, and do not despair of help to understand the will and mind of God though you think they are fast locked up from you. Neither trouble your heads though you have not commentaries and exposition. Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men. Also, what is from men is uncertain, and is often lost and tumbled over by men; but what is from God is fixed as a nail in a sure place. There is nothing that so abides with us as what we receive from God; and the reason why the Christians in this day are at such a loss as to some things is that they are contented with what comes from men's mouths, without searching and kneeling before God to know of Him the truth of things. Things we receive at God's hands come to us as truths from the minting house, though old in themselves, yet new to us. Old truths are always new to us if they come with the smell of Heaven upon them.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.