A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!

I wear my wife's eyeglasses because she wants me to see things her way.

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd; Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms: Nothing becomes him ill that he would well. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.

The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.

A weak Invention of the Enemy.

When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

Age--that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.

Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say that he'll dance ye a hornpipe upon the point of a needle.

He who limps is still walking.

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things. -Unknown love quote.

Veritas vos liberabit The truth shall set you free

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.