A person preaches well that lives well.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

What is to give light must endure burning.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.