The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.

We can sometimes love what we do not understand but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder.We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.

There is some reason to believe there is greater safety in this branch of medicine from modest unassuming ignorance than from a meddling presumption which frequently accompanies a little learning.

Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.

If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour's eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour's case.

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!

To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.

Excessive drinking is not good for my health, my family or my game. There has definitely been a change, and I feel better for it.

Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies.

I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.