What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.. Epictetus, c 200 AD -Seneca.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they are shrewd, And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude; But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness, Are as nothing to their goodness when they're good.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.

But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was Greek to me.

I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes-- Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me, Yet still they crawl offensive to mine eyes: I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

Still waters run no mills.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of in illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.

The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and human stupidity.