I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

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.

Forbidden fruit makes a wonderful wine." Vazco gave him a leading look. "But leaves a hell of a headache.

Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.

If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.

I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.

I do not know exactly why, but it seems to me that images do not belong to anybody but are instead there, at the disposal of all.

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.

I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.

By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.

It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.