For knowledge too is itself a power.

Reading maketh a full man.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

This world's a bubble.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read.

The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.

A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison.

Where is Aelin. Where is my wife?

Hadn't another wise man, the Buddha himself, warned about the evils of attachment?

Yet do I fear thy nature It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.

The first sound after a silence should always be your very best.

You feel the pressure of going to university because you need a back-up plan, which is why I enrolled.

Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have been enormously helpful to me.

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

Politics sometimes is not only unnecessary but also unnecessary complicated.

What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.

I just want to be more regular.