All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

One of my favorite quotes is:"... If I strike you it ain't going to be in your fancy.

I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that.

Think, in mounting higher, the angels would press on us, and aspire to drop some golden orb of perfect song into our deep, dear silence.

What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

Every business should have its biographer-not after its head is dead but to show that he's very much alive.

My theory: if the malls don't open until ten what's the point of being up earlier than that?

My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.

I don't eat sugary cereal.

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.