Wisdom’s Pearl doth often dwellClosed in Fancy’s rainbow shell

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

One dupe is as impossible as one twin.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

...real childhood scars heal, but not when band-aids replace self-reflection.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.

There wasn't a time where I felt fearful that I couldn't make the best decisions possible.

Any chief executive who hires a consultant to give them strategy should be fired.

To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.

He ,who is appointed to ,cohabit with the widow shall ,approach her at night anointed with clarified butter and silent, ,and beget one son, by no means a second.

Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.

Creativity is an unending exercise in uncertainty.

There's nothing worse than seeing someone chewing gum on the red carpet!