I say to the young blokes, when you get asked for an autograph, don't knock it back because there'll be a time where no one will ask you.

...because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth.

There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.

Fortune, that favors fools.

When a guy says "I have no idea what you're talking about" it means "I'm thinking of exactly what you're saying I did while I lie to you."

People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

When the promise is clear, the price gets easy

one cannot judge the beauty of a path merely by looking at its entrance.

Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.