Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

Dumbness and silence are two different things.

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.

When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.

We're unique in ways that can't be imagined, but you'll never know until you rid yourself of comparison.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.

Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious.

The only people who really love the '80s are millennials. We had Reagan and Bush for our entire youth, the culture was terrible, the fashions were terrible, the movies were terrible.

Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.

I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.

For a man not to achieve the things he has an opportunity to do is such a waste of life.

A holy mind cannot repeat a vile thing, let alone be the creator of a vile suggestion.

It's good to be in on the action.