Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Eighty percent of success is related to attitude rather than competency.

Giving advice to a stupid man is like giving salt to a squirrel.

For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.

Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.

Triumph is "umph" added to try.

What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?

How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.

Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out.

A vice is a failure of desire.

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.