The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge.

Order gave each thing view. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canannites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to posterity.

People see the world not as it is, but as they are.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

To freemen, threats are impotent.

The pitcher goes so often to the fountain .

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

There can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.

To measure the man, measure his heart.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

Look to the end of a long life.

I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged.

It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That, after Last, returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched; That what began best, can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst.