Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.

Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland SMALL?

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.

In spite of all their kind some elements of worth With difficulty persist here and there on earth.

The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.

History repeats, but science reverberates.

He never looked back, the day he realized the power of presentations.

I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again.

True states of realization occur when you throw away all the teachings. All of the teachings, absolutely. Everything. Then you are investigation itself finding out what you are.

I've often lost faith in myself, I've never lost it in my family.

But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.

My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.

During the last campaign I knew what was happening. You know, they mocked me for my foreign policy and they laughed at my monetary policy. No more. No more.

Every person you meet is waging his or her own war against a callous universe that is plotting against them.