Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.

Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, and the romance in a relationship, and find out you still care for that person.

It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication is the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, "it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.".

Every crowd has a silver lining.

Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.

Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!

It is good the have a hatch before the durre.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

Get me some French tailor To new-create you.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.

It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.