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.

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.

To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.

Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.

On a silent moonlit night look at the sky and see yourself dancing with those distant twinkling stars.

Even having to water flowers is too much constraint.

What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.

Someone is always there to love you no matter what happens in life. That person is you. Take a break! You deserve it.

One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth.

I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

I don't like perpetuating the stereotype of black males being drug dealers, and criminals.

You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it lies with the teller, not the tale.