Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.

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.

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

Man made God in his own image.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

Where are the drug cartels getting their weapons? They are being provided by the United States. Cut off that flow of arms.

The best lies about me are the ones I told.

Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely.

I can get into politics. I'm a pretty straight guy for this business. I have a pretty healthy outlook.

If you're not really having fun then there's no point of really trying.