Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt than of expense.

Fair insect! that, with threadlike legs spread out, And blood-extracting bill and filmy wing, Dost murmur, as thou slowly sail'st about, In pitiless ears full many a plaintive thing, And tell how little our large veins would bleed, Would we but yield them to thy bitter need.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.

Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday?

To love what you do and feel that it matters-how could anything be more fun.

Laugh till you cry.

He believed that he was born, not for himself, but for the whole world.

I don't like this new law, because your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him

But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.