But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

Best that all mischief be undertaken behind a squeaky door

I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.

As long as there is death, there is hope

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.

Life is sometimes very complicated, but we can purposely learn to enjoy the simple yet powerful and beautiful things God has created!

In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldnt ordinarily explore.

As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy.

Unless you give it all you've got, there isn't any sense in playing.

My grandfather did not travel across 4,000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this country overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland.