He who is good at excuses is generally good for nothing else.

Death and the dice level all distinctions.

Born in a cellar, and living in a garret.

For as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent Then learning is most excellent.

One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.

Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.

Temptation can sway even the purest mind to sin, and the denialist to claim that tomorrow will bring change. However, the irrefutable truth is—tomorrow, my friend, never comes.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Aim at being loved without being admired.

Simmering resentment saps energy.

Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

War among men defiles this world.