How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Until you begin to write, then you will see the beauty of writing.

Nothing boosts confidence quite like simulating a disaster, engaging with it fully, both physically and intellectually, and realising you have the ability to work the problem.

Conventional wisdom tells us not to dwell in the past. I believe, however, that we should hold hands with it.

The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys

God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us.

There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen.

Without chiropractic, I wouldn't be able to play consistently throughout the season.

There is no detour to holiness, Jesus came to the resurrection through the cross, not around it.

I'm just a loyal person. I'm loyal to myself.

And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.