Chance generally favors the prudent.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

There is no greater prize than a quiet, peaceful mind.

I think it's fair to say that I don't pick up languages. If anything, I roll around in them gracelessly and pray that something sticks.

There is so much art can do to enlighten people, no matter what their views might be. If art can't go there or doesn't elevate the social consciousness in some way, then we are in peril.

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.

One question:do you want to hang ten or BE a ten?"-Massie Block

You know that the formula is askew when even if the formula is working, it's not; when even if everything's going right, something is wrong.

The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.

I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.

The cat that Prim got hates me, I think partly because I tried to drown it.