Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise. 'Tis more by art, than force of numerous strokes.

They would talk of nothing but high life and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.

Thanksgiving (U.S.) I thank Thee, O Lord God, that though with liberal hand Thou hast at all times showered thy blessing upon our human kind, yet in Jesus Christ Thou hast done greater Things for us than Thou ever didst before: Making home sweeter and friends dearer: Turning sorrow into gladness and pain into the soul's victory: Robbing death of its sting: Robbing sin of its power Making peace more peaceful and joy more joyful and faith and hope more secure. Amen.

Light seeking light doth light of light beguile. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, "Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.".

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

Her voice, the music of the spheres, So loud, it deafens mortals' ears; As wise philosophers have thought, And that's the cause we hear it not.

Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner: Honest water, which ne'er left man i' th' mire.

To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic.

It is a dangerous and idle dream to think that the state can become rule by philosophers turned kings or scientists turned commissars. For if philosophers become kings or scientists commissars, they become politicians, and the powers given to the state are powers given to men who are rulers of states, men subject to all the limitations and temptations of their dangerous craft. Unless this is borne in mind, there will be a dangerous optimistic tendency to sweep aside doubts and fears as irrelevant, since, in the state that the projectors have in mind, power will be exercised by men of a wisdom and degree of moral virtue that we have not yet seen. It won't. It will be exercised by men who will be men first and rulers next and scientists and saints long after.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance. -Shakespeare.

I'm at an age where I think more about food than I do about sex. Last week I put a mirror over my dining room table.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.