What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.

Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail, And crying havoc on the slug and snail. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,

Men are born equal but they are also born different.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Energy and persistence alter all things.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

As a wit, if not first, in the very first line.

And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime.

Love is not just gazing at each other but looking together in the same direction.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touch.

It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.

And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 3.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.