All wish for knowledge, but no one wishes to pay the price of it.
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint.
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays golden eggs.
Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette.
Faith: n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
God's first creature, which was light.
How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
I cannot but conclude that the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
I have not slept one wink.
I shudder when relating it.
If I am not me, who da hell am I?
If I be bound to pray for all that be in distress, surely I am bound, so far as it is in my power, to practice what I pray for.
In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
Manna: n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.
No one respects a talent that is concealed.
Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during a dark night in February.
Reason is life's sole arbiter.
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Suppose this library had been in operation a few weeks ago, and the burglars who happened along and broke into my house – taking a lot of things they didn't need, and for that matter which I didn't need – had first made entry into this institution. Picture them seated here on the floor, poring by the light of their dark-lanterns over some of the books they found, and thus absorbing moral truths and getting a moral uplift. The whole course of their lives would have been changed.
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.
The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble to us, and I for one must be content to remain an Agnostic.
When I died last, and, Dear, I die as often as from thee I go though it be but an hour ago and lovers hours be full eternity.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Who saves his country violates no law.
