Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

A genius is a lunatic who made it!

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

If you can't give it all you've got, don't bother.

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

Today it's normal. Photos used to be a support to the text, but we turned things around, reducing the words to a minimum.

Its who you know and who can help you.

I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.

If you knew who walked beside you at all times, on the path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again.

Where there is nothing, there is God.