As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.

Religion deals with beliefs and faith, but science deals with truth and facts.

Rising and falling of the sun confirm Your kingship and Your rulership.

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not even a failure. You're just not there.

For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls!

What I had to learn was, that I'm responsible for my perception of things.

The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.

The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.