Virtue is the only true nobility.

Skepticism is slow suicide.

Hospitality sitting with gladness.

The republic of letters.

Love is like quick sand, if u fall in it then there is no way out.

As so I penned It down, until at last it came to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.

Don't worry! It's not loaded.

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron!

Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.

Note on a door: Out to lunch; if not back by five, out for dinner also.

He serves me most who serves his country best.

It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.

Happiness hates the timid! So does science! - Strange Interlude, 1928.

You are the nectar, the hummingbird, the clover. You are the bloom, the bee, the OerHoverer. You are the child, the bond and the mother. You are the Love, the Beloved, the Lover. .

'Twas his ambition, generous and great A life to life's great end to consecrate.

Nothing endures but change. -Heraclitus.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Fair words butter no parsnips.