O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein, But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns, And heightens ease with grace.

If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.

Drink to her that each loves best, And if you nurse a flame That's told but to her mutual breast, We will not ask her name.

The daffodil is our doorside queen; She pushes upward the sword already, To spot with sunshine the early green.

A friend is one before whom you may think aloud.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me . . . All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Man is the creature of circumstances.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-- and a lot of courage- -to move in the opposite direction.

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.