And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

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.

Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.

Every heart is a universe within its own galaxy that is ready to accommodate many others in her immeasurable depth.

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.

Judaism is not a religion. At best, it is a racial credo, designed to maintain racial cohesion, in this case the Khazar bloodlines.

I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

I'm not going to just take office in January, I'm going to take responsibility.

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.