The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

He supposed that, except musicians, every one thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.

Each person must implement their preferred problem solving method to address existential questions pertaining to life and death, living and loving, working and playing, resting and restructuring.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety or by the handle of faith.

Brains like that, you could be a Death Eater, son.

I'm totally into the emotional aspect of things.

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable.

Whatever it takes to break you.

Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.

I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.