I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

For every thinking and reflecting man the existence of evil is a riddle he cannot escape.

He's like the anti-Ben, but his attention is like a shot of adrenaline.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.

Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.