All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles river when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

The future is like heaven. Everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

Politics, n: Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites".

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

How sweet the answer Echo makes To music at night, When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes, And far away, o'er lawns and lakes, Goes answering light.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -- ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.

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

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life.

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.

What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost.

Bring poppies for a weary mind That saddens in a senseless din.