A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

To procure solutions that will marvel you and the world, just think outside the box.

We ought to give each other, a chance to change.

People who are less happy, I find, are always consoling those who are more.

an odious crime, as old as the Bible and for an utterly despicable motive too and carried out in a cowardly manner, making use of intermediaries.

As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

Finn smiled ruefully. "I'm a Prisoner, old man. Just like you.

Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

I brought this case because I am an atheist and this offends me, and I have the right to bring up my daughter without God being imposed into her life by her schoolteachers.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.