Dumbness and silence are two different things.

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.

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.

Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.

Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?

I can give or take elephants

Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.

Many of our fears are tissuepaper-thin and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.

Humility is the mother of giants.

I am furious about everything.

At 45, you know what you're doing, but you're still not done.

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.

The Bible isn't meant to just inform us, it is meant to transform us. 40 Days in the Word will teach you how to be not just a hearer of the Word, but a doer of the Word!

Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.