Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

The happier time, the quicker it passes

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

I look and I look...I must have come to the wrong planet.It's so strange here.

The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.

Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.

You're either making a market or disrupting a market. Entering a market is usually the wrong way to go.

I feel like Alice falling into Wonderland. A line came to him: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

By taking these three steps you will get closer to the Gods: First, Say the Truth. Second: Don't let you get Angry. Third: Give, even though you have so little to give.

It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.

Polls show that Arabs admire a lot of the Western values, cultural aspects in the West. It is more about policies than about way of life.

Italian politicians are stupid and expensive, that's why they should be fired, abolished, or better eliminated.

I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.