In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

This is heaven my child.

Gender imbalance is, at its root, a collective spiritual crisis.

One of Renee's friends asked her, "Does your boyfriend wear glasses?" She said, "No, he wears a Walkman.

People abandoned one another constantly without performing the courtesy of of actually disappearing. They left, but didn't, lurking about, a constant reminder of what could or should have been.

The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.

I like going out to popcorn-munchers.

The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.

Men grow old quickly on the battlefield.

In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.