Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other.

Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.

There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism.

Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer approach.

The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to be almost involuntary.

Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.

The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree.

Great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains.

Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.

The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation.

Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles.

So tell me i'm wrong, cursed me when i'm started being a douchebag and all. Then i'll let you know how much i love you, lads.

Our best canvas is all around us, in everything we touch and do.

There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.

When I got to college I finally got a job.

I don't feel [the] excitement you have when you first walk into a recording studio. It now feels like a tool.

You should have a 1-on-1 roughly every 2 weeks.

You haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where gravity has failed twice in different directions.

A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?

My man prefers meat over the bone.

What is a friend? I will tell you . . . . it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.