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

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.

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.

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

Come out of hiding, don't be afraid to be yourself.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.

If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.

In my ugly, elitist opinion we are not all entitled to voice our opinions, we are entitled to pass along our informed opinions.

I love to wear red lipstick a lot, even in the daytime.

True confidence leaves no room for jealousy. When you know your are great, you have no need to hate.

It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.