Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

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.

A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day.

Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.

When trying to start a company, your enemy isn't criticism, anger or insults. Your enemy is apathy.

An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.

The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear.

America's exceptionalism, American leadership, the American model, the American values are not [first with Donald Trump] - they're something that end at the border.

People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.

I've played with Mardy Fish a lot. Played with him, I think, two years ago in one of the weekend rounds.

If we do it, if we work to achieve all this [cultural exchange with Japan], we can and should talk about joint efforts toward ensuring international security, and not only in the Far East.