All fame is foreign, but of true desert; Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart: One self approving hour whole years out-weighs Of stupid starers, and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels, Than Caesar with a senate at his heels.

Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.

The crux is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.

When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul.

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

From Stirling Castle we had seen The mazy Forth unravelled; Had trod the banks of Clyde and Tay, And with the Tweed had travelled; And when we came to Clovenford, Then said "my winsome marrow," "Whate'er betide, we'll turn aside, And see the braes of Yarrow."

The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.

Imitation is suicide.

He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.

"Then here goes another," says he, "to make sure, For there's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More.

The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.

Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee, In unreprov'd pleasures free.

We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions--bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.