Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

I slept for over a full day, as you know, but I won’t say I rested.

How can you kill a man who'd already been dead for years?

And of a Sunday swarm the folkUnder the honeysuckle vine, Quaffing, the while they talk and smoke, The sun, the melody, the wine.

All cats are gray in the dark.

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to keep it.

When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.

Ah, the things we would do if we could — especially in the secure knowledge that we can't.

Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole thing.

A lot of people have pretty little heads, but it's difficult to find a pretty little mind.