Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.

Second chances are not that important. What's important, is being ready when the first chance is given.

I am infected with the eternal virus of love. I am eager to spread it, and I never want a cure.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Authors want their names down in history I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

The average person just sees through their senses. The world is filled with wonderful mysteries and beauty. You need personal power to open up all of that, without it - these are just words.

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

Don't you think almost anything can be funny? Almost anything.

The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.