How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

The Lord does not require us to wear a [cassock] — He wants us to be good and kind.

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

I don't know that cell phones are dangerous. But I don't know that they are safe.

There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.

Humble things become the humble.

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself

Most of the money I make now comes from investments from CrunchFund. And the vast majority of that is what's called carried interest.

Pike put down the cat. He slid from Pike's arms like molasses and puddled at his feet.