A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together?

To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them,—but not for love. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.

He that is proud of the rustling of his silks, like a madman, laughs at the ratling of his fetters. For indeed, Clothes ought to be our remembrancers of our lost innocency.

I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou her maid art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious. Her vestal livery is but sick and green, And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off.

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained.

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

A black sheep is a biting beast.

College isn't the place to go for ideas. -Hellen Keller.

The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

If you don't care, your customer never will.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.

Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.