As the telescope is not a substitute for, but an aid to, our sight, so revelation is not designed to supersede the use of reason, but to supply its deficiencies.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

But then, anyone was capable of any manner of atrocities if they wanted something bad enough. People could justify anything to themselves if they wanted it bad enough. No one was immune to that.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.

What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a specific moment, in a specific context, by a specific photographer employing specific tools.

Scared of a bunch of water? Then get out the rain. Order a rapper for lunch, and spit out the chain.

Praise to our Father-God, High praise in solemn lay, Alike for what His hand hath given, And what it takes away.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribners in New York before I was 30.

When you think of the good old days, think one word: dentistry.

The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us.

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.