The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.

Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.

The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.

Nothing is so firmly than that which is least known.

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.

We do not need anything more than our daily bread.

Faye, if you got eaten by another shark, would you please at least have the decency to say so? My time is kind of limited, if you know what I’m sayin’.

Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.

Market prices are always wrong.

Black is a colour of power and strength.

It is important to learn how to take criticism seriously, but not personally.

Henceforth the majesty of God revere;Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear.

A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!