Look at the woebegone walk of him. Eaten a bad egg. Poached eyes on ghost.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

Let my country die for me.

Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.

Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

What dreams would he have, not seeing. Life a dream for him. Where is the justice being born that way?

He laughed to free his mind from his minds bondage.

Prudence is precaution, prudence is protection.

Fight for change? Thirst for difference?Start talking what men avoid talking about.

People wonder why I always dress professionally. I want to be admired for my intelligence, instead of my body.

He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour.

I've always loved high style in low company.

All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.

Libertarian: everyone leaves everyone else alone

When you start to beat yourself up, remind yourself of how worthy you are of love.

The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.

Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes.