To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these? Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught The dialect they speak, where melodies Alone are the interpreters of thought? Whose household words are songs in many keys, Sweeter than instrument of man e'er caught! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,

Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.

We are not Zionists but Zinnists.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

No one can remember more than three points.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

The only way to be free is to limit yourself.

I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

Something given that way.

I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.

Character is what a person is in the dark.

There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.

A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.