Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

Might was the measure of right.

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 We have all the reason in the world to believe that the goodness and justice of God is such as to make nothing necessary to be believed by any man which, by the help of due instruction, may not be made sufficiently plain to a common understanding.

It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.

You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was "the scourge of God."

This apoplexy, as I take it, is a kind of lethargy, an't please your lordship, a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson tingling.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

The ceaseless rain is falling fast, And yonder gilded vane, Immovable for three days past, Points to the misty main.

Fear grows from what we don't know, faith comes from what we do.

There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy. - Thomas De Quincey ,

That's why I don't talk. Because I talk too much.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Everything will past, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

There is a society in the deepest solitude.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

The strongest man upon Earth is he who stands most alone.

Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it around like marmelade.