The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Everything that can be counted doesn't necessarily count; everything that counts can't necessarily be counted.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it had missed the point.

'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity.

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.

Heroes have an infinite capacity for stupidity. Thus are legends born!

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

The cure for anything is saltwater--sweat, tears, or the sea.

A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.

What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.

When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams.pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build bigger and better dreams.

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

And, may I say to thee, this pride of hers, Upon advice, hath drawn my love from her; And, where I thought the remnant of mine age Should have been cherished by her childlike duty, I now am full resolved to take a wife And turn her out to who will take her in.

If thou desirest to be safe, turn at once in thy emptiness to God. If thou hast been inconsistent, how canst thou better become consistent again than in God only? How canst thou better escape death than by the true, real Life -- which is God Himself?

Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

Never assume the obvious is true.