Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

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.

Slayeth the evil that lives inside you, where they are walking the Devil walks too.

You won't ever know, unless you try!

I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will prevail, that the dream of our founders will live on in our time.

I don't tell anybody else what to wear. I would never dream of it.

When it comes to climate and energy, Gates is a radical consumerist. In his view, energy consumption is good - it just needs to be clean energy.

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep

In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics.

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

We always get into trouble when we doubt God's love, because when we don't trust him, we don't obey him.

Curiosity is a quest for wisdom on untamed grounds.