A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

Grief is itself a medicine.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

If you have a light, meet the world or let the world meets you!

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.

If something's neither here nor there, where the hell is it?

To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.

I'd rather die than fade away

After all, life is not a Hindi movie.

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

Learning happens when someone wants to learn, not when someone wants to teach.