The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .

The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice.

It's about time for Lindell White to get back on the floor, expose himself, and get the ball in a scoring position.

Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.

Good is the mora that makes all sure.

Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.