An idle life always produces varied inclinations.

The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.

Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes.Children, savages, and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.

Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.

Benefits make a man a slave.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.

I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture.

Never do but one thing at a time, and never put off till to-morrow what you can do today.