Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

Dumbness and silence are two different things.

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.

When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.

I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to her, I and no other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me.

It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned.

We don't really know how the game was invented, though there are suspicions. As soon as we discover the culprits, we'll let you know

--but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's.

I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now.

Listen to them! How wholly infused with God is this one big word of love that we call the world!

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.

I already felt disengaged with my contemporaries.

Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.

General [John] Pope is impulsive and hasty, but energetic, and, what is of most importance, patriotic and sound--perfectly sound.I look for good results.