I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Each man's soul is his genius.

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.

Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.

An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot.

One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.

Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen.

If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.

Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.

His Scotch bear-leader, Mr Boswell, was a butt of the first quality.

Don’t lower your standards to keep anyone, if they’re not making you happy, it’s time to find someone who does.

True love withstands the storms of life.

Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light.

The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.

I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to.

Look at the limes in this drink, how they float. That's good news. Next time I'm on a boat, and it capsizes, I will reach for a lime. I'm saved by the buoyancy of citrus.

If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.

I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.