Money often costs too much.

Two great things you can give your children: one is roots, the other is wings.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.

A man of my kidney. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.

The modesty's a candle to thy merit.

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

Do not dig up the tree to examine his roots.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.

The Dog and the Shadow A DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, saw his own shadow in the water and took it for that of another Dog, with a piece of meat double his own in size. He immediately let go of his own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog to get his larger piece from him. He thus lost both: that which he grasped at in the water, because it was a shadow, and his own, because the stream swept it away.

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Master, if you do, expect spoon-meat, or bespeak a long spoon.

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

A lofty cane, a sword with silver hilt, A ring, two watches, and a snuff box gilt.

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

If I could be a bird, I'd be a Flying Purple People Eater because then people would sing about me and I could fly down and eat them because I hate that song.

Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.

On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired.