Behold yon rough and flinty roadWhere youth, now youth no more, Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loavesHe cast away of yore.

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

The ladies kept telling me I wasn't good in bed, so I figured if I wasn't a lover then I must be a fighter

You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best.

The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones.

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.

Your absence is the presence of godliness.

Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.